canivete

15th century. Borrowed from Old French cnivet (“little knife”), from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (“to pinch”).

The meaning "cane","rocket", was transferred from the group cana, canavela, canaveira, "cane".

• IPA^(key): [kaniˈβetɪ]

canivete m (plural canivetes)

1. knife, penknife
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 89:

     Quando as ditas llandoas creçeren asy como Nozes, ou mais ou menos, traua dellas llogo et apretaas et fendeas ao llongo con canyuete agudo

     when these growths become big as nuts, give or take, grab them readily and squeeze them and cut them open lengthwise with a sharp knife

   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI., Vigo: Galaxia, page 172:

     e hus canibetes novos

     and some new knives

2. cane
   1. rocket
   2. (euphemistic, humorous) sexual intercourse

• (sex): foguete

• botar un canivete (“to have sex”, literally “to throw a rocket”)

• Canive

• “canibete” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canivete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “canivete” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canivete” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From to Old French canivet (“little knife”), from Frankish *knīf (“knife”), from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”), from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ-. Compare French canif.

• Hyphenation: ca‧ni‧ve‧te

canivete m (plural canivetes)

1. pocketknife, penknife

• faca

• Hunsrik: Kanivett