falcatrúa
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Galician
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese falcatrua (used c. 1285 by the Galician author Airas Nunes), a compound word of obscure origin; the second theme is possibly related to truán (“rogue”), of Celtic origin.
Cognate with Portuguese falcatrua and Asturian falcatrúa, francatrúa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]falcatrúa f (plural falcatrúas)
- (dated) saddlebag, purse
- 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:
- Pro tamén veu de Castela un Seor aló ben rico, que traguía as falcatroas cheas co o ouro bonito
- But it also came from Castille a gentleman who there is quite rich, who brought the saddlebags filled with the beauty gold
- trickery, fraud
- wrongdoing
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “falcatrua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “falcatrua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “falcatrua” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “falcatroa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “falcatrúa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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