xantar

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Asturian[edit]

Verb[edit]

xantar (first-person singular indicative present xanto, past participle xantáu)

  1. (Western Asturian) Alternative form of xintar

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Galician[edit]

Silvio Fernandez's O Xantar ("the lunch"), 1890
Casa de Xantar (~ "house of eating" / "restaurant")

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, from Latin ientāre, present active infinitive of ientō. Cognate with Portuguese jantar, Asturian xintar and Spanish yantar.

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Noun[edit]

xantar m (plural xantares)

  1. dinner (midday main meal)
    O que ben almorza escusa o xantar (proverb)He who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.
  2. lunch
    • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:
      bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta
      I'm running for the loaf, if I find lunch to eat, because yet this afternoon I ought to spread a large pile of dung
  3. (historical) a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative
    • 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:
      dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas
      you'll give this monastery's abbess a "dinner" each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this "dinner" a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

Verb[edit]

xantar (first-person singular present xanto, first-person singular preterite xantei, past participle xantado)

  1. to dinner (afternoon main meal)
    • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:
      Polas tres da tarde
      Xantei à desexo
      C’o à miña muller,
      Aurora, è a nena
      Que a tiña a nai
      Garimada ao peito
      Around three in the afternoon
      I dinnered to my liking
      with my wife,
      Aurora, and the girl
      that the mother had
      close to her bosom
  2. to lunch
  3. to eat
    Synonym: comer

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References[edit]

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