firuient

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiɾˈβjent/

Adjective

firuient (plural firuientes)

1. Apocopic form of firuiente, boiling
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 79r:

     Sant iuã euangeliſta fo de bethſaẏda. e p̃dico en aſia de pues lo fizo penar domiciari^g[sic] el emꝑador de roma. mãdo lo met̃ en una cuba dolio firuient.

     Saint John [the] Evangelist was from Bethsaida, and he preached in Asia. And then Domitian the emperor of Rome had him condemned, [so] he ordered he be put into a vat of boiling oil.