britar

Galician

Alternative forms

• abirtar, abritar, birtar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese britar, from Suevic [Term?] *briutan, from Proto-Germanic *brutōjaną (“to chop, to fragment”) or Proto-Germanic *breutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Compare Old English brēotan and English brit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾiˈtaɾ/

Verb

1. to break up (a plot, preparing it for later being sown)
   • 1253, Miguel Romaní (ed.), Colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, p. 662:

     vendo totis montis (quoos) vos britastis et ficarum pur britar, et os novos qui inde levastis

     I sell to you all the lands that you broke up and those that are still pending, and the new products that you have already taken away

   • 1999, Anxo Angueira, Pensa Nao, Vigo: Xerais:

     Agora queren campías, britan montes para prados

     Now they want grassland, and they break up the lands into prairies

2. to furrow
3. (dated) to brit, destroy, crush
   • 1262, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.)História do galego-português. Coimbra: I.N.I.C., p. 45.

     aſi que ſe algẽ de noſſa parte ou da eſtraya uẽér a britar ou a contradizer eſta noſa uẽzõ que per noſo prazer é feyta, ſeya maldito de Deus

     So if anyone, from our side or from another, would come to break or contradict this our selling, which is voluntarily done, they shall be damned by God

Derived terms

• birta
• brita

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “britar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “brita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

britar m

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of brite

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese britar, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English brittian, or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gothic or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Suevic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾi.ˈta(ɾ)/, -(ɹ)
• IPA^(key): /bɾi.ˈta(ɾ)/, -(ɻ)

Verb

1. to brit (to break into pieces)
2. to injure (to cause physical harm)
3. to destroy; to crush
4. (historical) to decrease a coin’s weight without decreasing its value

Synonyms

• (to brit): despedaçar, fragmentar, triturar
• (to injure): contundir, ferir, machucar
• (to destroy): acabar com, destroçar, destruir

Derived terms

• brita
• britadeira
• britado
• britador

• britagem
• britamento
• brita-ossos