Galician edit

Etymology edit

From terra (earth, ground) +‎ -ádego.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

terrádego m (plural terrádegos)

  1. (historical, law) rent paid for a rustic property
    • 1474, Andrés Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 153:
      Et mays queremos et prazenos que se os labradores que morarẽ enos dictos lugares de Segelle et Grueyro que vos assy aforamos forẽ a fazer et labrar estiuadas enos dictos montes da dicta Graña de Carnẽes que se veñam a saluo para vos et vos paguen o terradego del.
      And we want, and it pleases us, that if the farmers that live in that places names Seselle and Brueiro, that we rent to you, went to slash and burn in the aforementioned hills belonging to the Farm of Carnes, that they can came safely unto you and they shall pay to you the corresponding rents

References edit

  • terradego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • terradego” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • terrádego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.