a maiores
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a (“at, to”) + maiores (“major, greater”), with an elided noun.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- additionally
- 1888, Marcial Valladares, “Contos”, in Modesto Ermida, editor, Narradores ocasionais do século XIX, page 475:
- os ladróns disputaban sobre a quen se había de axudicar un maravedí que a maiores resultaba na repartita
- the thieves debated over whom should be allotted a coin that additionally resulted from the partition
- further, furthermore, moreover
- 2005, Palabras a Eito, Univ Santiago de Compostela, →ISBN, page 64:
- A maiores, soubo presentar os temas e desenvolvelos en forma evidentemente suxestiva.
- Moreover, he knew how to present the subjects and how to explain them in an evidently suggestive way
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maiores”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “a maiores”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN