Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese falescer (to fail, err; diminish), derived from falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere. Compare Portuguese falecer, Spanish fallecer.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [faleˈθeɾ], (western) [faleˈseɾ]

Verb edit

falecer (first-person singular present falezo, first-person singular preterite falecín, past participle falecido)
falecer (first-person singular present faleço, first-person singular preterite falecim or faleci, past participle falecido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. to die
    Synonyms: finar, morrer
  2. (archaic) to be lacking
    • 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:
      Estas duas follas que de aqui faleçen tirey eu Rui Matines, notario, deste libro por quanto os escrivãaos de miña notaria lançaron ende algũas escripturas que non devian ser aqui asentadas
      These two leaves that are lacking here were removed from this book by me Roi Martínez, notary, because the scribes of my office put there some scriptures which shouldn't be recorded here
    Synonyms: fallar, marrar

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References edit

  • falecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • fales” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • falecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • falecer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese edit

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese falescer, derived from falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere.[1][2] Cognate with Galician falecer, Spanish fallecer.

Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Hyphenation: fa‧le‧cer

Verb edit

falecer (first-person singular present faleço, first-person singular preterite faleci, past participle falecido)

  1. to die
    Synonym: morrer

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