andadura
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From andar (“to walk, go”) + -dura.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
andadura f (usually uncountable)
- the act of walking or going
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 4v:
- Qvádo lo ſopo labá al dia t́cero. q́ ſe ẏua priſo de ſos amẏgos. E fue trá Jacob. Andadura .vij. dias. e alcáçol en el móte de galaath.
- When Laban came to know on the third day that he was fleeing, he took his relatives and went after Jacob, walking seven days, and he overtook him on the hill of Gilead.
Descendants edit
- Spanish: andadura
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: an‧da‧du‧ra
Noun edit
andadura f (plural andaduras)
Further reading edit
- “andadura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish andadura. Analyzable as andar (“to walk, go”) + -dura.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
andadura f (plural andaduras)
- gait
- walking (the act of walking)
- (figuratively) project, work, activity, process (long-term undertaking)
- 2020 January 18, Jaime Santirso, “ByteDance empezó su andadura con un agregador de noticias, Jinri Toutiao, que recurría a la inteligencia artificial para adaptar sus contenidos al usuario.”, in El País:
- path
Further reading edit
- “andadura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014