enfesta

Galician

Either from Latin īnfestus (“hostil”); or from en- + -festo, from Germanic: compare French faîte (“top, summit”) and German First (“ridge”).^[1]

enfesta f (plural enfestas)

top; high place
slope
- 1289, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, editor, Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 671:
  por esse rio de Villa de Jusaa et pela fonte da Caal et por esse marcho que se ena enfesta de contra a ygregia
  by the river of Vila de Xusá, by the fountain of the channel, and by that landmark which is in the slope next to the church
plough pin; rod that connects the beam and the shoe or the plough
Synonym: teiroa

enfesta

feminine singular of enfesto
- c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 838:
  cortou et tallou vinas et ortas et pães et o que achou, que nõ leixou y cousa enfesta
  He cut down the vineyards and gardens and corn fields and everything that that he found, as he didn't leave there anything standing

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Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “enfesta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enfesta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“enfesta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“enfesta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“enfesta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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