ourive

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ourivez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aurificem, accusative of aurifex, from aurum (“gold”) + -fex (“maker”). Cognate with Portuguese ourivez.

• IPA^(key): /owˈɾiβe̝/

ourive m or f (plural ourives)

1. goldsmith (craftsman who makes things out of gold)
   • 1289, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 113:

     auiinça ontre os vigarios e cabido dos canbeadores e os ouriuez

     agreement in between the vicars and chapter of the exchangers, and the goldsmiths

   Synonym: prateiro

• ourivaría

• ouro

• “ourivez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “ourive” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ourive” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “ourive” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.