Meaning of Carballo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a town and municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
   masculine
2. oak
   masculine
3. a parish of Taboada, Lugo, Galicia
   masculine
4. English oak (Quercus robur), which was the more common tree in Galicia till the second half of the 20th century
   masculine
5. a parish of Friol, Lugo, Galicia
   masculine
6. sessile oak (Quercus petraea)
   masculine
7. San Xil de Carballo (a parish of Samos, Lugo, Galicia)
   masculine
8. Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica)
   masculine
9. several villages and hamlets all along Galicia
   masculine
10. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
    masculine
11. a toponymical surname
    masculine
12. Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea)
    masculine
13. oakwood
    masculine

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Examples

“1353, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada/A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 513”

1391 AD, Saturday, 6th of may, being under the oak of the church of Saint Michael of Osmo, before Roi Lourenzo, judge in the jurisdiction of Anllo …

“Camiños de perdiciós pratican os máis e os menos máis de cen. O carballo máis ferrudo si o becho lle crava o dente no raigado, amolece e xa golbudo vén ao chan prestamente derrumbado. Os vicios son bechos fortes que amolegan corpos duros e valentes”

Roads to perdition, the most and the least practice more than a hundred. The most robust oak, if the bug sink his teeth in the roots, softens and, when rotten, comes to the ground promptly, slumped. Vices are strong bugs that soften hard and bold bodies.

“Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo”

Item, the aforementioned Gonzalo Fernandez and Gonzalo Ferreiro committed themselves to bring, for the construction of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beams of oak, each one at least twenty-seven cubits long

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