vontade

Galician

From Old Galician-Portuguese voontade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from the Latin voluntās, voluntātis (“will; desire; disposition toward”). Cognate with Portuguese vontade and Spanish voluntad.

vontade f (plural vontades)

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “voontade”, 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), “uoontade”, 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), “vontade”, 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), “vontade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vontade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese voontade, from the Latin voluntās, voluntātis (“will; desire; disposition toward”). Cognate with Galician vontade and Spanish voluntad.

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /võˈta.dɨ/ [võˈta.ðɨ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bõˈta.dɨ/ [bõˈta.ðɨ]

vontade f (plural vontades, diminutive vontadinha)

will; the condition of feeling like or wanting something
Casei-me com ele contra a minha vontade. ― I married him against my will.

Estou com vontade de chorar. ― I feel like crying.
desire, wish
Synonym: desejo
intention; purpose
Synonym: intenção