ançião

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ançiao, ançiano, anciano

Etymology

Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *anteānus. Documented from the thirteenth century.

Adjective

ançião

1. old

Noun

ançião

1. elder

Descendants

• Portuguese: ancião
• Galician: ancián, auçião (archaic), anciao (central, eastern), anciam (reintegrationist), ancião (reintegrationist)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ançião”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega