ensullo
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin īnsubulum, from Latin īnsuō (“I sew up”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enˈsuʎo/
Noun
ensullo m (plural ensullos)
- weaver's beam, warp beam
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 47r:
- é golias era armado ſobre ſo cauallo eſt philiſteo auie de alto .vj. cobdos eun palmo. e auia el ẏelmo de azero. ela loriga peſaua .v. mil libras. e el aſta de ſue mano era tan grueſſa cuemo el enſullo del texedor el fierro peſaua .dc. peſas.
- And Goliath was armed on his horse. This Philistine was six cubits and a span in height, and he had a bronze helmet, and his coat of mail weighed five thousand shekels, and the shaft in his hand was as thick as a weaver's beam; the iron [point] weighed six hundred shekels.
Spanish
Further reading
- “ensullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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