engorde
See also: engordé
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From an Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese *ẽordẽe, from Latin in ōrdinem (compare engadir).
Pronunciation
Adverb
engorde
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “engorde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “engorde”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “engorde”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Verb
engorde
Spanish
Noun
engorde m (plural engordes)
- weight gain, fattening
- livestock finishing
- (figurative) weight
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael:
- Poco habituado a este culto y a una idea superior acerca de lo divino, limitado a lo humano y a la fiereza del sentimiento de independencia individual, que adobaba bien la cruda vida del desierto, el gaucho errante tuvo que subordinar su sentido moral a ciertas preocupaciones y supercherías que daban halago a sus instintos, adquirían engorde en su ignorancia y ofrecían excusa o pretexto a sus arranques geniales y a sus caprichos crueles.
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Verb
engorde
- inflection of engordar:
Further reading
- “engorde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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