sabugo

• sabuco, samuco

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

sabugo m (plural sabugos)

1. (dated) elderberry; elder (shrub of the genus Sambucus)

   Synonyms: bieiteiro, sabugueiro

2. kernel of the elderberry wood
3. nailbed (area underneath the nail)
4. the spongy substance inside horns
5. in general, any soft medulla under a hard substance

• Sabaceda
• Sabacedo
• Zabuceda

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sauugo”, 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), “sauugo”, 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), “sabugo”, 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), “sabugo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sabugo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. Compare Italian sambuco.

• Hyphenation: sa‧bu‧go

sabugo m (plural sabugos)

1. elderberry; elder (shrub of the genus Sambucus)

   Synonym: sabugueiro

2. elderberry (fruit of the elderberry shrub)
3. corncob (core of an ear of corn)
4. nailbed (area underneath the nail)
5. the spongy substance inside horns

• sabugal
• sabugueiro