espliego

Signification (Anglais)

lavender

Concepts

lavande

spic

lavande vraie

Lavandula

Synonymes

lavanda

alhucema

cantueso

tomillo borriquero

Lavándula

montaraz

lavandula hembra

Traductions

lavender

lavanda

🧽

Lavendel

espígol

lavendel

lavanda

λεβάντα

spigo

alfazema

Lawendel

Spieke

خزامى

Lavandula

deutsche Narde

Coupé comme

es‧plie‧go

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/esˈpljeɡo/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Emprunté à aragonais: espligo

Appartenant à catalan: espígol

Appartenant à galicien: esprego

In summary

Borrowed from Aragonese espligo, from Latin spīculum (literally “little spike”) with metathesis of /l/. Coromines & Pascual propose that the word was interpreted as a derivative of pliego (“sheet of paper”) to explain the replacement of /i/ with /je/. At the time, there was /i~je/ alternation in numerous lexical items, such as castiello~castillo or aviespa~avispa. Compare Catalan espígol, Galician esprego.