peaxe

Galician
Trilingual sign at a Galician toll road

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese peage, and already attested in 12th century local Medieval Latin documents as pedagium vel sim; probably from Old French or Old Occitan. Cognate with Spanish peaje or English pedage.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /peˈaʃe̝/

Noun

peaxe f (plural peaxes)

  1. pedage; toll
  2. toll booth

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