adiviño

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Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Attested since circa 1350. Back-formation from adiviñar. Compare Spanish adivino.

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

adiviño m (plural adiviños, feminine adiviña, feminine plural adiviñas)

  1. soothsayer, seer, clairvoyant, fortune-teller
    • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, pag. 85:
      por que lle diserõ os adeujnos que avias de morrer ẽna batalla de Troya
      because the soothsayers told you that you would die at the battle of Troy
Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

adiviño

  1. first-person singular present indicative of adiviñar
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