canivete

15th century. Borrowed from Old French cnivet (“little knife”), from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (“to pinch”).

• IPA^(key): /kaniˈβete̝/

canivete m (plural canivetes)

1. knife, penknife
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 89:

     Quando as ditas llandoas creçeren asy como Nozes, ou mais ou menos, traua dellas llogo et apretaas et fendeas ao llongo con canyuete agudo

     when these growths become big as nuts, give or take, grab them readily and squeeze them and cut them open lengthwise with a sharp knife

   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 172:

     e hus canibetes novos

     and some new knives

• Canive

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

From to Old French canivet (“little knife”), from Frankish *knif (“knife”), from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”), from *knīpanan 'to pinch', from Proto-Indo-European *gneibh. Compare French canif.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ni.ˈvɛ.te/, /ˌkɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.te/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ni‧ve‧te

canivete m (plural canivetes)

1. pocketknife, penknife

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