burgo

From English burg, Latin burgus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈburɡo/
• Hyphenation: bur‧go

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• Rhymes: -urɡo

burgo (accusative singular burgon, plural burgoj, accusative plural burgojn)

1. castle, fortress; city, town

From Old Galician-Portuguese burgo (“borough”), from Late Latin burgus, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“hill-fort”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾɣo̝/

burgo m (plural burgos)

1. borough, neighborhood
2. (historical) during the 12th century, newly founded town to which a bill of rights was awarded

• Burgo
• burguesía

• Burgo
• Burgovedro
• Malburgo
• Malburguete

From Latin brūchus, from Ancient Greek βροῦκος (broûkos).

• brugo

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾɣo̝/

burgo m (plural burgos)

1. grub, caterpillar, especially of the cabbage butterfly

   Synonym: eiruga

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “burgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “burgo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “burgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “burgo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “burgo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English borough, burgh, French bourg, Italian borgo, Spanish burgo.

burgo (plural burgi)

1. borough, burgh, market town

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burgō

1. dative/ablative singular of burgus

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese burgo, from Late Latin burgus, from Vulgar Latin *burgus, borrowed from Frankish *burg (“fortified city”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortified city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).

• Hyphenation: bur‧go

burgo m (plural burgos)

1. (historical) burg (fortified town in medieval Europe)

Inherited from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg (“fortified city”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortified city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾɡo/ [ˈbuɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -uɾɡo
• Syllabification: bur‧go

burgo m (plural burgos)

1. burg
2. city

• “burgo”, 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