Note 32 — BOOK I. FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

The Spaniards cannot easily enter into the spirit of these verbal allusions in the Portuguese language; for the word which in Portuguese signifies a river, is in Spanish by the usual change in the penult syllable Ribera, and signifies a bank. The Portuguese Ribeira, or Ribeiro, is probably derived from Rivus; and the Spanish Ribera from Ripa.