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mortaldade

Galician

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'AQUI : IAZ : ALVARO : PAZ : CARNEIRO : QUE : SE: FINOU : ENA: MORTALDADE : XV DIAS : DAGOSTO : ERA : M : CCC : LXXX : VI : ANOS' / Here lies Álvaro Paz Carneiro, who died during the mortality. 15 days of August, era 1386 years (=1348 CE), Noia

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Etymology

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From Latin mortālitās (“mortality”). Doublet of mortalidade.

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Noun

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mortaldade f (plural mortaldades)

  1. mortality (death on a large scale)
    • 1352, A. López Carreira (ed.) Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 315:
      os herdamentos, viñas, casas e casares, cortiñas et chousas que som en termio desta çidade d’Ourense et arredor dela et ennos coutos do dito señor obispo que son foreiras e tributarias ao dito señor obispo se herman e despobran e se van a monte et os ommes non as poden nen queren lavrar por estas rasoens que se seguen et outras moytas que serian longas de dizer: A huna razon he por que os ommes lavradores et aqueles que eran delas teedores commo foreiros morresen na mortaydade e pestilençia que foy enno anno da era de mill e trezentos e oyteenta e seys annos, en guisa que ficaron poucos para lavrar segundo he notorio per todo o bispado d’Ourense.
      the properties, vineyards, houses and farms, gardens and fields that are in the jurisdiction of this city of Ourense and around, and in the jurisdictions that are from the bishop and pay taxes to the bishop, became wasted and deserted, and go wild, and the men don't want to nor can work them because of the following reasons and many others which would take long to say: a reason is because the farmers and the men who had then as tenants died during the mortality and pestilence that happened during the year of 1348, so few were left for working the lands, as it is notorious all throughout the bishopric of Ourense
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