Noun: garrote
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | garrote |
| Plural m | garrotes |
Sample Sentences
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afforo [...] a meatade de toda essa minna binna, con o herdamento que ias a par dela [...] con a meatade do lagar et garrote que y esta assy commo esta acaroada de muro (I rent to you … half of my vineyard, with the possessions that are adjacent to it … with half of the winepress that is there, as it is delimited by a wall) [1357, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 139]
Nouns inflected like garrote
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in the 14th century. From Old French garrot, itself either from Old Occitan leg and the suffix -ot, from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”), or from a Germanic source.
Translations
garrot, stick used for tightening