alfalfez
Old Spanish
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
Noun
alfalfez m (plural alfalfezes)
- alfalfa
- c. 1380–1385, Ferrer Sayol, transl., Libro de Palladio, translation of Opus agriculturae by Palladius, page 130r:
- E sepas que el alfalfez estercuela e engrasa el campo o la tierra.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alfalˈfeθ/ [al.falˈfeθ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /alfalˈfes/ [al.falˈfes] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eθ (Spain)
- Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: al‧fal‧fez
Noun
alfalfez m (plural alfalfeces)
Further reading
- “alfalfez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024