verga
Portuguese
noun
Definitions
- stick, twig
- wicker
- (nautical) yard spar on a mast from which sails are set
- (architecture) lintel horizontal structural beam spanning an opening
- (vulgar) penis, dick
Etymology
Inherited from Latin virga (twig, stick, rod, shoot, slender green branch, rod stick, switch, staff, branch) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wisgā (flexible rod stick).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wisgā
Gloss
flexible rod stick
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- verge staff English
- virga English
- virga Latin
- virgator Latin
- virgetum Latin
- virgula Latin
- verga Italian
- envergure French
- verge French
- vergue French
- envergar Spanish, Castilian
- verga Spanish, Castilian
- vergazo Spanish, Castilian
- vergota Spanish, Castilian
- vergudo Spanish, Castilian
- vergón Spanish, Castilian
- *wisgeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wisgā Proto-Indo-European
- ar Portuguese
- envergadura Portuguese
- envergar Portuguese
- vergar Portuguese
- virga Portuguese
- verge Old French
- verga Galician
- vargă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vèrgue Norman
- verge Middle French
- veargã Aromanian
- *wizgā Proto-Italic
- virga Istriot