aborigenes

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.

    Noun

    aborigenes m pl

    1. (Roman mythology, hapax legomenon) Aborigines (the earliest inhabitants of central Italy)
      • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Xeral Historia [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria: versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 106:
        Et [depoys] desto, em tẽpo de Seruc, [hum] prinçepe [a que] chamauã Tybre, rrey de hũas gentes [a que] diziã os aborigenes, vẽeo cõ sua oste aaquela terra de Rroma, et fezo hũa pobla acerca daquel rrio Tibre […]
        And [after] this, in the time of Seruc, [a] prince [that] was called Tiber, king of some peoples [that] were known as the Aborigines, came with his army to that land of Rome, and made a town near to that river Tiber […]

    Descendants

    • Galician: aborixe
    • Portuguese: aborígene

    References

    • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aborigenes”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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