Acevedo
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Toponym derived from the Latin acifolium ('holly', Ilex aquifolium), descriptively applied to settings with natural abundance of holly trees. The Asturleonese form Acevedo preserves the Latin base preserves the base intact and with the collective suffix -edo.
Evolution of the name
- acifolium / acifoletum Latin 1st–5th centuries
- Acevedo medieval Asturleonese from the 10th century
Reflections, to the letter
Hamlet of fifteen inhabitants at 980 metres. The late Romanesque 13th-century rural chapel of San Antón preserves a popular sculpture of the saint. The hamlet's holly grove, protected formation of about thirty hectares, hosts centenary specimens.
Glossary
- Cantabrian holly grove
- Forest formation of holly (Ilex aquifolium) characteristic of the Cantabrian range between 600 and 1,500 metres, generally under cover of oak or beech groves. Asturian and Leonese holly groves are protected by Law 4/1989 on Conservation of Natural Spaces, with felling prohibition except for traditional use. Asturias preserves more than four hundred catalogued hectares.
- Collective suffix
- An ending that adds to a noun the sense of "a place where the named thing abounds". In Castilian-Leonese, -al is the most productive (Pinar, Robledal, Rabanal); in Galician -edo (Carballedo); in Basque -tz (Zarautz).
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