alpendre

Attested since the 13th century. Probably from Latin appendix (“addition”), or either from a Celtic term akin to Gaulish *talopennos (“gable”): compare Occitan alapens (“penthouse”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /alˈpendɾe̝/, /alˈpɛndɾe̝/

alpendre m (plural alpendres)

1. (dated) porch
   • 1267, Margot Sponer (ed.), "Documentos antiguos de Galicia", Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura, 7, doc L29:

     que fazan una egreſya con ſou alpendere

     they shall build a church with its porch

2. a penthouse built onto the side of another building; lean-to
3. shed.

• (penthouse): combarro, cuberto, pendello
• (shed): alboio

• “alpend” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “alpendre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “alpendre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “alpendre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Latin appendere (“to hang”), from ap- + pendō (“to hang”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).

• Hyphenation: al‧pen‧dre

alpendre m (plural alpendres)

1. terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alpendre

2. overhang (portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building)

   Synonyms: telheiro, coberta