medianoite

Galician

"Cando paramos de correr, aló pola praza do Correxidor, oíronse no reló da catedral as badaladas de media noite", Blanco Amor, A Esmorga - when we stopped running, there at the Praza do Correxidor, the midnight chimes were heard at the cathedral's clock

Alternative forms

• media noite

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mea noite (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): media (“middle”) + noite (“night”). Compare Portuguese meia-noite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meðjaˈnojtɪ]

Noun

medianoite f (plural medianoites)

1. midnight
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 322:

     Ano de LV, sábado á noyte, que eran viinte dias do dito mes de setenbro, aas noue horas da noyte, foy conbatido por força de armas os paaços et curral do bispo d'Ourense et a hua ora, sobre médea noyte, foy entrado a poder de armas et non foy ende nehuún ome morto, saluo foron feridos dos do conçello ata noue ou des personas et dos do curral tres o quatro de seetadas, et en outro dia, o domingo, combateron a torre bella con Roy de Caldellas et con Johán de Canba et outro omee et puxaron de çima da torre hun canto e deu en hua perna Afonso da Proua et morreu dela.

     Year of 55, Saturday night, twenty days of said month of September, at nine hours at night; it was combatted forcibly with weapons the palace and yard of the Bishop of Ourense, and at certain time, around midnight, it was forcibly penetrated, but no man was killed then, but nine or ten persons of the Council were wounded, and of the yard three or four of arrow shots; and the other day, sunday, they combatted the old tower with Roi de Caldelas and with Xoán de Camba and with another man, and they threw from the top of the tower a stone which hit Afonso da Proba in a leg, and he died of that

References

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