enfesta

Galician

Etymology 1

Either from Latin īnfestus (“hostil”); or from en- + -festo, from Germanic: compare French faîte (“top, summit”) and German First (“ridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɱˈfɛsta̝/

Noun

enfesta f (plural enfestas)

1. top; high place
2. slope
   • 1289, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, editor, Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 671:

     por esse rio de Villa de Jusaa et pela fonte da Caal et por esse marcho que se ena enfesta de contra a ygregia

     by the river of Vila de Xusá, by the fountain of the channel, and by that landmark which is in the slope next to the church

3. plough pin; rod that connects the beam and the shoe or the plough

   Synonym: teiroa

Derived terms

• Enfesta
• Enfestela

Adjective

enfesta

1. feminine singular of enfesto
   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 838:

     cortou et tallou vinas et ortas et pães et o que achou, que nõ leixou y cousa enfesta

     He cut down the vineyards and gardens and corn fields and everything that that he found, as he didn't leave there anything standing

Derived terms

• enfestar

Adverb

enfesta

1. (archaic) upwards

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

enfesta

1. inflection of enfestar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative