billardo

1418. From Old French billard (“rod, staff”), diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), probably ultimately from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

• IPA^(key): /biˈʎaɾðo̝/

billardo m (plural billardos)

1. a small faggot (bundle of sticks)
   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 94:

     Iten, billardos oyto a dineiro.

     Item, faggots [sticks?], a coin for each eight

   Synonym: feixe

• billa
• billarda

• “billardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “billard” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “billardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “billardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “billardo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /biˈʎardo/, [biˈʎarðo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /biˈɟ͡ʝardo/, [biˈʝarðo]

billardo m (plural billardos)

1. billiard