pouco e pouco
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Galician[edit]
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Adverb[edit]
- little by little
- Synonyms: aos poucos, pouco a pouco
- c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 868:
- Et asi os forõ escarmentando de todas partes, pouco et pouco, de nõ seyrẽ tã derreniadamẽte com̃o eno começo faziã
- And so they were teaching them a lesson every which way, little by little, not to go out in such a desarray as in the beginning they did
- 1895, A. López Ferreiro, O Castelo de Pambre, Santiago de Compostela: Alende, page 132:
- co afán de averiguar o que pasaba, forase chegando pouco e pouco e a furtadelas astra aparapetarse detrás dunha rocha que estaba antr'os chaparros
- with the intention of finding out what was going on, he had been getting near little by little and furtively until he got undercover behind a rock that was among the shrubs
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References[edit]
- “pouco et pouco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “pouco e pouco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pouco e pouco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pouco e pouco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.