barnacle

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
2. The barnacle goose.
3. (slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
4. (slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
5. (slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
6. (obsolete) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
7. (slang) A pair of spectacles.
8. (obsolete,slang) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
9. (slang) A worldly sailor.

Verb

1. To connect with or attach.
2. To press close against something.

Concetti

balano

mordacchia

oca facciabianca

Branta leucopsis

oca dalle guance bianche

sinonimi

barnacle goose

cirripede

cirriped

Branta leucopsis

oyster

🦪

shellfish

spectacles

👓

breys

horse-brays

horse-barnacles

brize

acorn barnacle

broyes

cockle

glasses

mussel

Traduzioni

percebe

pouce-pied

percebe

είδος στρειδιού

bernache

craca

Rankenfüßer

λεπάς

Rankenfußkrebs

Seepocke

percebe

ανατίφη

κολλητσίδα

είδος οστρακόδερμου ύφαλων

Con il trattino come

bar‧na‧cle

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈbɑːnəkl̩/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: barnakille

Affine francese: barnache

Affine gallese: brennig

Affine irlandese: báirneac

Affine irlandese antico: barenn

Affine greco antico: λέπας

In summary

Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).