trobo

See also: Trobo

Catalan

Verb

trobo

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of trobar

Galician

two types of traditional Galician trobos

Etymology

The word is documented in local Medieval Latin as ˡtrobano, whence also its cognate Asturian truébanu. From a substrate language, probably from Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (settlement) and akin to Proto-Celtic *trebno- (room, house).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɾɔβʊ]

Noun

trobo m (plural trobos)

  1. beehive; skep
  2. wooden container made from a hollow trunk

References

  1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “troj”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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