esparto

See also: Esparto

English

A pair of esparto sandals found in Granada, Spain, dated between 5200 and 4800 BC.

Esparto on Spain's Mediterranean coast.

Etymology

From Spanish esparto, via Latin spartum from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təʊ

Noun

esparto (uncountable)

1. Either of two species of perennial grasses used for fibre production, and for making paper:
   1. Stipa tenacissima, of North Africa.

      Synonyms: halfa, esparto grass, halfah grass, needlegrass

   2. Lygeum spartum, of the Mediterranean.

      Synonyms: albardine, esparto grass, cord grass

Translations

species of North African grass

• Arabic: حَلْفَاء f (ḥalfāʔ)
• Armenian: սպանյախոտ (spanyaxot) (Western Armenian), ալֆախոտ (alfaxot)
• Bulgarian: алфа (bg) f (alfa)
• Catalan: espart (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茅草 (zh) (máocǎo)

• Danish: espartogræs n, alfagræs n
• Esperanto: esparto
• French: alfa (fr) m
• Galician: esparto m
• German: Halfagras (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀμπελόδεσμος m (ampelódesmos)

• Irish: alfa m
• Italian: alfa (it) f
• Japanese: アフリカハネガヤ (アフリカ羽茅, Africa hanegaya)
• Latin: spartum n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alfa (no) m, alfagress n, alfagras n

  Nynorsk: alfa m, alfagras n

• Portuguese: esparto (pt) m
• Romanian: alfa (ro) n
• Russian: эспарто (ru) (esparto)
• Spanish: esparto (es) m
• Tarifit: ari m, tiyeẓḍent f

Further reading

• esparto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stipa tenacissima on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Pastore, Tropeas, to spare, teraops, Pateros, Proteas, proteas, seaport, Portsea

Galician

Etymology

From Latin spartum (“esparto, Spanish broom”), from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈpaɾto̝/

Noun

esparto m (plural espartos)

1. esparto (grass)
   • 1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro, editors, Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435), Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, →ISBN, page 53:

     […] hũu estrenque d'esparto novo et hũu estrenque vello d'esparto, et con seu treu que son tres monetas et hũu papafigo et con todos los outros seus aparellos […]

     […] a new rope of esparto, and an old rope also of esparto, with its set of sails, composed of three minor sails and a mainsail, with all the additional rigging […]

2. scourer

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esparto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “espart”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esparto”, 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), “esparto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esparto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈpaɾto/ [esˈpaɾ.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -aɾto
• Syllabification: es‧par‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin spartum (“esparto, Spanish broom”), from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”).

Noun

esparto m (plural espartos)

1. esparto (grass)

   Synonym: atocha

2. One of the Spartoi

Derived terms

• espartar

 

Descendants

• → English: esparto

Etymology 2

Verb

esparto

1. first-person singular present indicative of espartar

Further reading

• “esparto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16