facenda

Galician

facenda f (plural facendas)

(formal) possessions, wealth, fortune, heirloom
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 297:
  cata ben tua fazẽda, de tal maneyra que todos digã que de bon padre que seýo bon fillo
  take good care of your fortune, so that everyone says that of a good father came a good son
- 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:
  A fazenda do crego, da a Deus, e leua a o demo
  The priest's wealth: God gives it, Devil takes it away
cattle and animals belonging to a house, family or neighbour
- 1853, Xoán Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, page 4:
  A facenda no monte vai pastando
  [family's] cattle graze in the wild
(archaic) business, affair
(euphemistic) bollocks, family jewels

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fazenda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fazenda”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “facenda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “facenda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “facenda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN