feiticeira
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feiticeira f (plural feiticeiras)
- female equivalent of feiticeiro; sorceress
- 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun galego:
- Meigas, feitizos e bruxas
que persigue a Inquisicion,
sin mascara, socaliñas
de cregos e frades son.
Chamanlles bruxas à ás vellas
por ter cara de carton;
pero solamente hay meygas
en donde hay Inquisicion.
As femias da nosa especie
de certa constitucion
fan visaxes, e son tolas,
pero feitizeiras non.- Witches, spells and hexes,
who are prosecuted by the Inquisition,
maskless, hoaxes
of priests and friars are.
They call hex an old lady
because her face is made of cardboard;
but there are witches
just where it is Inquisition.
Females of our species,
of certain constitution,
make gestures, and are mad,
but sorceresses they are not.
- Witches, spells and hexes,
References edit
- “feytizeyra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “feyti” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “feiticeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “feiticeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From feiticeiro + -a.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fei‧ti‧cei‧ra
Noun edit
feiticeira f (plural feiticeiras)
- female equivalent of feiticeiro; sorceress