luva

See also: luvà

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Gothic 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa, “palm of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm of the hand”).[1] Alternatively, from Suevic *glufa,[2] from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (compare dialectal Spanish goluba).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.β̞ɐ/

Noun

luva f (plural luvas)

  1. glove
    • c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 184:
      Et quando veu que se aviã de partir, arrebatou lle hũa luba da maão
      And when he saw that it was time to go, he snatched a glove from her hand
    • c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 186:
      Et tragiã todos arcos torquiys, et luuas de açeyro, et seetas moy agudas.
      And old of them brought Turkish bows, and gloves of steel, and very sharp arrows
    Synonym: guante

Derived terms

References
  • “luba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “luua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “luva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “luva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “luva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. lúa.
  2. Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. luva.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-.

Noun

luva f

  1. love

Derived terms
  • luvig

Portuguese
luvas

Etymology

From Gothic 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa, “palm of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm of the hand”) [1]. More at loof, glove.

Pronunciation

Noun

luva f (plural luvas)

  1. (clothing) glove
  2. type of sleeve for connecting pipes
  3. (in the plural, figuratively) tip; bribe
    • 2016 February 5, Mariana Oliveira, “Processo de Veiga resultou de carta rogatória das autoridades francesas”, in Público‎:
      Os investigadores acreditam que Veiga e Paulo Santana Lopes receberam milhões em luvas de empresas que queriam investir no Congo, uma antiga colónia francesa, onde os dois portugueses, sócios, viviam há uns anos.
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References
  1. “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 21 May 2012, archived from the original on 27 May 2012
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