comenencia
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Semi-learned borrowing from Latin convenientia. Doublet of conveniencia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]comenencia f (plural comenencias)
- personal interest or involvement lacking solidarity
- Leva coidado con el, só se te arrima pola súa comenencia ― Be careful, he gets near you just out of his own interest.
- 1877, O Tío Marcos da Portela, number 39:
- Os pródicos falan forte, que ó cabo vixías son do noso adianto, mais as súas falas, como hai moitos que son xordos de comenencia, fan o efeuto de sermós en deserto.
- The periodicals speak loudly, after all they are watchmen of our progress, but their speeches, since there a so many who are deaf because of their own interest, have the effect of preaching in the desert.
Derived terms
[edit]- comenenciudo (“opportunist”)
References
[edit]- “comenencia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “comenencia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “comenencia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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