/ˈfejʃe/, [ˈfej.ʃɪ]
OrixeInherited from Old Galician-Portuguese feixe (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fascis, from fascio (“to bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with Portuguese feixe, Spanish haz, Catalan feix, Occitan fais, French faix, Italian fascio and Romanian fascie.
- masculinebundle
- masculinesheaf
“Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar” — five flax sheafs: one threshed and four pending
- collective, masculinefaggot
“dous feyxes de rodriga” — two faggots of stakes
- masculinelot (a number)
“1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419” — Tax on the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a s
- masculinelot (large quantity)
- masculinebunch
- masculinewinepress beam
Formasfeixes(plural) · feixo(alternative) · feix(alternative)