loviello

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• luviello
• oviello

Etymology

From Late Latin lubellum < globellum, diminutive from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loˈβjeʎo/, /lu-/, /o-/

Noun

loviello m (plural loviellos)

1. skein

Descendants

• Spanish: ovillo

References

• Dworkin, Steven. 2018. A Guide to Old Spanish. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page 89.
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “ovillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Gredos, →ISBN, page 327