quentura

Galician

Alternative forms

• caentura

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caentura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from quente (“hot, warm”) +‎ -ura. Compare Portuguese quentura and Spanish calentura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɛnˈtuɾɐ]

Noun

quentura f (plural quenturas)

1. heat

   Synonym: calor

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 262:

     Et assi acaeçeu que hũu dia, andando desarmado pela grã caentura que fazia, catando o muro do castelo per hu era mays fraco et per u se perderia mays agiña, ouuo assi de seer que, allj andando, que llj tirarõ hũa seeta, de que foy mal ferido ontre as espadoas.

     And so it happened that one day, while he was going around unarmed because of the big heat, examining the wall of the castle to find where it was thinner and where it was going to get lost sooner, they shot an arrow to him which wounded him severely in between the shoulder blades

2. fever

   Synonym: febre

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Teño moitos calafrios,
     á quentura ben detràs,
     receo, si hè ò mal catìbo,
     Dios che me'arrede detàl.

     I have many shivers
     the fever rises just next
     I fear it is the mal cativo,
     God keep me away from that

Related terms

• quentar
• quente

 

References

• “caentura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “caentura” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “quentura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “quentura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “quentura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.