podre
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese podre (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin puter, putrem, from Proto-Indo-European *puH-.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
podre m or f (plural podres)
- in state of decay; rotten
- 1418, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 148:
- seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre
- six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of dried ones and of rotten ones
- overridden by bacteria and other infectious agents; rancid; rotten
- (figurative, humorous) sick, having a cold
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
podre m (plural podres)
References edit
- “podre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “podre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “podre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “podre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “podre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese podre, from Latin putrem, from Proto-Indo-European *puH-.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: po‧dre
Adjective edit
podre m or f (plural podres, comparable, comparative mais podre, superlative o mais podre or podríssimo)
- rotten (in a state of decay)
- rotten, rancid (overridden by bacteria and other infectious agents)
- (Brazil, informal) bad, horrible
- Que filme podre.
- What a bad movie.
Derived terms edit
- podre de rico (“filthy rich”)
Noun edit
podre m (plural podres)
- (Brazil, informal) an embarrassing or compromising piece of information about someone or something; dirt
- Fiquei sabendo de podres dele.
- I learned some compromising information about him.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin putrem. Compare Spanish pudrir (“to rot”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
podre f (plural podres)
Further reading edit
- “podre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014