covarde
Galician
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese covardo ("covarda", 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Old French cuard probably through Old Occitan.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcovarde m or f by sense (plural covardes)
Derived terms
editAdjective
editcovarde m or f (plural covardes)
- coward
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:
- quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudo
- who was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked
References
edit- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “couardo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “couard”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cobard”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “covarde” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “covarde” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “covarde” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Adjective
editcovarde m or f (plural covardes)
Noun
editcovarde m or f by sense (plural covardes)
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old French
- Galician terms derived from Old Occitan
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- Galician nouns with multiple genders
- Galician masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Galician adjectives
- Galician terms with quotations
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adjectives
- European Portuguese
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple genders
- Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense