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esmola

Catalan

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Verb

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esmola

  1. inflection of esmolar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese esmolna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin eleēmosyna, from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē). Cognate with Portuguese esmola and Spanish limosna. Cognate with English alms.

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Noun

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esmola f (plural esmolas)

  1. alms
    • 1340, C. Rodríguez Núñez (ed.) (1989): "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 481:
      muy pobres que non han de que se manteer sen as esmolas et aiudas dos boos cristaos
      the very poor ones, who have nothing to sustain themselves save for the alms and help of the good Christians
    • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
      Ahi vay esa esmoliña
      p'rá à virxen à empregà
      que che lla dou de boa mentes;
      ¡cantè quen poidera mais!
      There it goes this little alms,
      Apply it to the Virgin
      because I give it to her willingly
      If only I could give more!
  2. almsgiving
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References

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

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: es‧mo‧la

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese esmolla, esmolna, earlier elmosna, from Late Latin eleēmosyna, from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē).

Noun

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esmola f (plural esmolas)

  1. alms (small amount of money or goods given to someone as charity)
  2. almsgiving (the practice of giving alms)
  3. (figurative) a small benefit or help given to someone in need
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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esmola

  1. inflection of esmolar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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