sirgo

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sirgo (“silk”), from Latin sēricus (“made of silk”), from Seres (“the Chinese”), from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “China, the Chinese”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲／丝 (“silk”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsiɾɣʊ]

sirgo m (plural sirgos)

1. (archaic) silk
   • 1434, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 358:

     Item mando a a dita Ynes a mina touca que ten os deytados postiços et que esta en duas peças, et huna das peças ten huna orela con ouro et con sirgo verde

     Item, I bequeath said Inés my [nun's] headdress, that have detachable laterals[?] and come in two pieces, and one of them has a trim with gold and green silk

2. (rare) fishline

   Synonyms: liña, liñó, sedela, tanza

• sirga
• sirgar
• sirgo da raposa

• “sirgo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “sirgo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “sirgo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sirgo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sirgo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin sēricus (“made of silk”), from Seres (“the Chinese”), from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “China, the Chinese”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲／丝 (“silk”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾ.ɡo/

sirgo m

1. silk
   • 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Estêvão da Guarda, B 1306: Pois a todos avorrece (facsimile)

     ela t(ra)ge camiſa / De ſirgo

     she's wearing a silk shirt

2. silkworm

• (silk): seda
• (silkworm): babou

• Galician: sirgo
• Portuguese: sirgo

From Old Portuguese sirgo (“silk, silkworm”), from Latin sēricus (“made of silk”), from Seres (“the Chinese”), from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “China, the Chinese”), possibly from Mandarin 絲／丝 (“silk”). Doublet of sérico.

• Hyphenation: sir‧go

sirgo m (plural sirgos)

1. silk

   Synonym: seda

2. silkworm

   Synonym: bicho-da-seda

sirgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sirgar