felpa

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese (the derived form felpudo is already attested in the 13th century), probably from Old French felpe, feupe.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛlpa̝/

Noun

felpa f (plural felpas)

  1. fuzz
  2. (textiles) plush, fleece
  3. clod with grass or moss

Derived terms

  • Felpeiro
  • felpellar
  • felpello
  • Felpeto
  • felpudo

References

  • felpudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • felp” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • felpa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • felpa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • felpa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “felpa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfel.pa/
  • Rhymes: -elpa
  • Hyphenation: fél‧pa

Etymology 1

Maybe from Old French felpe, feupe,[1] of uncertain origin, but possibly from Late Latin faluppa (straw, fiber, chip), or from earlier ferpe, metathesized from fibra.[2]

Noun

felpa f (plural felpe)

  1. (textiles) plush, fleece
  2. sweatshirt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

felpa

  1. inflection of felpare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. felpa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. Angelo Prati (1951), "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, p. 480

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin faluppa, from Old French felpe.[1] Compare Italian and Spanish felpa.

Noun

felpa f (plural felpas)

  1. fuzz (frizzy mass of hair or fibre)

References

  1. felpa” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown,[1] perhaps a Germanic (possibly Frankish) borrowing, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See also Italian and Portuguese felpa, Occitan feupo, Catalan pelfa. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfelpa/ [ˈfel.pa]
  • Rhymes: -elpa
  • Syllabification: fel‧pa

Noun

felpa f (plural felpas)

  1. (textiles) plush, fleece
  2. (textiles) felt

Derived terms

References

  1. felpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading

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