enxame

• einxame, enxamio

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese eixame (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin exāmen. Cognate with Portuguese enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame.

• IPA^(key): [enˈʃamɪ]

enxame m (plural enxames)

1. 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

     moytos enjames d'abellas.

     Twenty-five dozens of eggs

     I offer her, so that they have the necessary

     to cook the formigos;

     and of honey a cauldron,

     because my skeps and hives

     have very good honeycombs,

     because this year

     many swarms of bees went out

2. beehive
   • 1411, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 260:

     Item mando a iglesia de (...) hun eyxame que seia para o lume

     Item, I grant to the church of (...) a beehive, for the light [for paying for the lightning of the church]

• enxamear

• “eixame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “eixame” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “enxame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “enxame” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “enxame” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese eixame, from Latin exāmen.

Cognate with Galician enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame. Doublet of exame.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
• Hyphenation: en‧xa‧me

enxame m (plural enxames)

1. swarm

• enxamear