sebora

sebora

Old Tupi

Etymology

    Borrowed from Portuguese cebola, from Old Galician-Portuguese cebola, from Latin cēpulla, from cēpa + -ulus. Doublet of seborá.

    Compare Paraguayan Guarani sevói.

    Noun

    sebora (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

    1. (hapax legomenon) onion (Allium cepa)
      Synonyms: (Língua Geral Paulista) seborá, (Late Tupi) 'ybaremusu

    References

    • anonymous author (1771), “Cebola [Onion]”, in Diccionario da lingua geral do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Belém, folio 39v; published as Cândida Barros, Antônio Luís Lessa, editors, Dicionário da língua geral do Brasil [Dictionary of the general language of Brazil ], Belém: MPEG, 2015, →ISBN, page 143: “Cebora”
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