mourisco

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mourisco. By surface analysis, mouro +‎ -isco.

• IPA^(key): /mowˈɾisko/ [mowˈɾis̺.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -isko

mourisco (feminine mourisca, masculine plural mouriscos, feminine plural mouriscas)

1. Moorish (of or relating to Moors)

mourisco m (plural mouriscos)

1. a variety of flax

   Synonym: liño mourisco

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mourisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mourisco”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mourisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mourisco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mourisco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From mouro (“Moor”) +‎ -isco. From Old Galician-Portuguese mourisco.

• Hyphenation: mou‧ris‧co

mourisco (feminine mourisca, masculine plural mouriscos, feminine plural mouriscas)

1. Moorish (of or relating to Moors)

   A arquitetura mourisca é verdadeiramente fascinante.

   Moorish architecture is truly fascinating.