podrẽe

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin puter + -agō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈdɾẽe/

Noun

podrẽe f (plural podrẽes)

1. (Galicia) putrefaction; rottenness; pus

   Synonym: podredũe

   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 189:

     Item. Tallaras o polmo darredor et tirallo as todo de reiz, e el tirado, fende a danadura da parte hu máis pender por se non retẽer o uinino nen outra cousa de podrẽe na chaga

     Item. You'll crop around the swelling and you'll take it out from its root, and this removed, you'll cleave the damaged area where it it steeper so that it doesn't retain venom nor other rottenness in the wound

Descendants

• Galician: podrén

Further reading

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “podree”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG