FromOld Galician-Portugueseeixame (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), fromLatinexāmen. Cognate withPortugueseenxame,Spanishenjambre,Catalaneixam,Occitaneissam,Frenchessaim andItaliansciame.
- IPA(key): /enˈʃame/[enʲˈʃa.mɪ]
- Rhymes:-ame
- Hyphenation:en‧xa‧me
enxame m (pluralenxames)
- swarm
1707, Salvador Francisco Roel,Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
conque fazer os Formigos,
e de mel vnha caldeyra,
que os meus cobos e cortizos
teñen moy boas entenas;
porque sairon ogano
moytosenjames d'abellas.- Twenty-five dozens of eggs
I offer her, so that they have the necessary
to cook theformigos;
and of honey a cauldron,
because my skeps and hives
have very good honeycombs,
because this year
manyswarms of bees went out
- beehive
- Synonym:colmea
1411, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor,Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page260:Item mando a iglesia de (...) huneyxame que seia para o lume- Item, I grant to the church of (...) abeehive, for the light [for paying for the lightning of the church]
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González;Granja, María Álvarez de la;Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “eixame”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “eixame” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “enxame”, inDicionario 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), “enxame”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enxame”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
Inherited fromOld Galician-Portugueseeixame, fromLatinexāmen.Doublet ofexame, alearned borrowing. Cognate withGalicianenxame,Spanishenjambre.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): (careful pronunciation)/ẽˈʃɐ̃.mi/,(natural pronunciation)/ĩˈʃɐ̃.mi/
- (Brazil)IPA(key): (careful pronunciation)/ẽˈʃɐ̃.mi/,(natural pronunciation)/ĩˈʃɐ̃.mi/
- (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): (careful pronunciation)/ẽˈʃɐ.me/,(natural pronunciation)/ĩˈʃɐ.me/
enxame m (pluralenxames)
- swarm
