amendoa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • amendooa

Etymology

    Inherited from Vulgar Latin *amandula, from Latin amygdala. Cognate with Old Spanish almendra.

    Noun

    amendoa f (plural amendoas)

    1. almond (nut of the almond tree)
      • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 113:
        que se faz na boca do Cauallo hũa enfirmidade de jnchaço ou de llandooas llongas en maneira de amendooas que apertan de dentro as qeixadas tanto que o cauallo non pode comer, et aas uezes jnchase toda a boca et o paadal tanto que adur pode comer
        that is made in the mouth of the horse a disease of swelling or of long glands, in the manner of almonds, that tighten from the inside the horse's jaws, so much that the horse can't even eat, and sometimes all the mouth and the palate swell so much that hardly can he eat

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Galician: améndoa
    • Portuguese: amêndoa

    References

    • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “amendooa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
    • Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “amêndoa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
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