doito

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese doito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin doctus. Cognate with Portuguese douto and Spanish ducho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdojtʊ]

Adjective

doito (feminine doita, masculine plural doitos, feminine plural doitas)

1. (archaic) experienced; used to

   Synonym: afeito

   Murmuray murmuradores, que sempre o habedes doyto; murmurade dos casados, que dos solteyros no he moyto (folk song, 18th century)

   Gossip gossipers, as you are used to; gossip about the married ones, not much to gossip about bachelors

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you are used to, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offence, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise!
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it or else
     I'll get angry.

Derived terms

• adoitar
• adoito

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doito”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “doito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin doctus.

Adjective

doito m (plural doitos, feminine doita, feminine plural doitas)

1. experienced

Descendants

• Galician: doito
• Portuguese: douto

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "doito, doita"