noguera

Forms

noguera f (plural nogueras)^[1] Old Spanish texts also write nogera.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is inherited from Late Latin nucāria (“nut tree”), from nux (“nut”).^[1] The DLE takes it from the Medieval Latin phrase arbor nucaria (“nut tree”), and García de Diego from an unattested masculine *nucārius.^[4][5]

The same word is Portuguese nogueira, Catalan noguera, Occitan noguièr and French noyer;^[1][5][6] Ribagorzan has noguero.^[1][5][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

DEMel's first primary record is in the Mozarabic documents of Toledo, dated 1187.^[2] The CDH's first record is the Fuero de Zorita de los Canes (1218–c. 1250), with a chapter De aquel que noguera o otro arbol cortare “On anyone who cuts down a walnut or another tree”.^[3] The later fueros of Úbeda, Alcaraz, Alarcón and Cuenca fine whoever strips the bark from a walnut tree.^[3]

Semantic evolution

In the Libro de Alexandre (1240–1250) September knocks down the walnuts: segudié las nogueras.^[3] The Diccionario de Autoridades treats it as the same as nogal, with a quotation from Villaviciosa's Mosquea, and every edition of the Academy's dictionary since has referred it to nogal.^[7][8][4] Moliner and Vox list it as a synonym of nogal.^[9][10] It is also a surname, and in Catalan the name of two rivers of western Catalonia.^[1][6]

Timeline

• 1187 – DEMel's earliest record, in the Mozarabic documents of Toledo.^[2]
• 1218–c. 1250 – the Fuero de Zorita de los Canes has noguera.^[3]
• 1240–1250 – the Libro de Alexandre has nogueras (in an early 15th-century copy).^[3]
• 1726–1739 – the Diccionario de Autoridades defines it as nogal.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. The walnut tree (nogal).^[4][1][9]

Word family

• nogueral

Related words

• nogal
• nuez
• Latin nux
• Catalan noguera
• Portuguese nogueira

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel), data publication 2026 (CC BY-SA), Universität Rostock, p. s.v. noguera
3. ^ a b c d e f Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. noguera
4. ^ a b c Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. noguera
5. ^ a b c García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. s.v. *nucarius
6. ^ a b c Alcover, Antoni M.; Moll, Francesc de B. (1930–1962), Diccionari català-valencià-balear, 10 vols., Palma de Mallorca: Moll, p. s.v. noguera
7. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. s.v. noguera
8. ^ Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 601
9. ^ a b Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. noguera
10. ^ Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. noguera