cribo

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English

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Etymology

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Noun

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cribo (plural cribos)

  1. Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.
    • 1871, Harper's Magazine, volume 43, page 844:
      It is a singular fact that this snake, so fatal to man, has no power against another West Indian snake, almost equally common, namely, the cribo.

Anagrams

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Asturian

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Verb

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cribo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar

Galician

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Prehistoric petroglyph at Outeiro do Cribo ("Hill of the Sieve"), Galicia

Etymology 1

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Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cribum, dissimilated form of Latin cribrum attested in some late glosses, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (to seive). Cognate with Portuguese crivo and Spanish criba.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cribo m (plural cribos)

  1. (agriculture) winnow
    Synonym: xoeira
  2. sieve
    Synonym: peneira
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 264:
      furarõ aquel vaso todo porlo fondo [como] criuo
      They pierced that vase all by its bottom as a sieve
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cribo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar

Spanish

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Verb

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cribo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar