vexilo

Galician
Partes dunha pluma:
1. vexilo (vane)
2. raque
3. barbas
4. hiporraque
5. cálamo

Etymology

From Latin vexillum (“flag, banner”).

Noun

vexilo m (plural vexilos)

  1. (ornithology) vane (of a feather)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vexillum (“flag, banner”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /vekˈsi.lu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vekˈsi.lo/
 

  • Hyphenation: ve‧xi‧lo

Noun

vexilo m (plural vexilos)

  1. (Ancient Rome) vexillum (banner carried by a legion)
  2. vexillum (a flag, banner or standard)
    • 1965, Congresso Nacional do Brasil, Anais da Câmara dos Deputados, volume 26, Departamente de Imprensa Nacional, page 822:
      […] ; nos balsões imperiais do Brasil, na primeira bandeira da Republica e nos vexilos dos inconfidentes mineiros de 1789 e dos revolucionários pernambucanos de 1817.
      […] ; on the imperial flags of Brazil, on the first flag of the Republic and on the banners Minas Gerais rebels and of the Pernambuco revolutionaries of 1817.
    • 2003, E. Vilhena de Moraes, O duque de ferro: novo aspectos da figura de Caxias, Biblioteca do Exército, page 20:
      Asperge, em seguida, com a agua lustral os vexilos, e, assentado no sólio, mitra na cabeça, os entrega ao soberano exclamando: […]
      He then sprinkles the banners with holy water and, [while] sitting on the throne [with a] mitre on his head, hands them to the sovereign and declaring: […]
    • 2014 (originally 1821), Almeida Garrett, Catão, Edições Vercial, page 130:
      Nenhum amava a liberdade, nenhum a served; mas ambos a arvoraram em seus vexilos para capa de paixões, de ódios, de ambições, de caprichos pessoais.
      Neither loved freedom; neither served it; but both displayed it on their banners as a disguise for their passions, their hatreds, their ambitions, their personal fancies.
    • 2017, Dante Alighieri (translator: Xavier Pinheiro), A Divina Comédia, Nova Fronteira, page 99:
      Aparecem os vexilos do rei do Inferno.
      The banners of the king of Hell appear.
  3. (botany) vexillum (the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower)
  4. (ornithology) vane (flattened web-like part of a feather)

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vexillum (“flag, banner”).

Noun

vexilo m (plural vexilos)

  1. (ornithology) vane (of a feather)
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