armiño

See also: armino

Galician

Armiño ("stoat")

Alternative forms

• arminho (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Already attested in local Latin documents in the 12th century; in Galician since the 13th century. Either from Proto-Germanic *harmô (cf. Old High German harmo), or from Latin mūs armenius ("Armenian mouse").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈmiɲo/ [aɾˈmĩ.ɲʊ]
• Rhymes: -iɲo
• Hyphenation: ar‧mi‧ño

Noun

armiño m (plural armiños)

1. stoat, ermine
2. the fur of this animal

Adjective

armiño (feminine armiña, masculine plural armiños, feminine plural armiñas)

1. made of ermine fur
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     Et era forrado en pẽna armjña

     And it was lined in ermine fur

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arminho”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “armjñ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “armin”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “armiño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “armiño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly an early borrowing from Latin (mūs) armenius, or alternatively of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈmiɲo/ [aɾˈmi.ɲo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -iɲo
• Syllabification: ar‧mi‧ño

Noun

armiño m (plural armiños)

1. ermine
2. (heraldry) ermine

Further reading

• “armiño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28