menciña
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese meezỹa, meezinna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin medicina (“drug”). Cognate with Portuguese mezinha. Doublet of medicina.
Pronunciation
Noun
menciña f (plural menciñas)
- home remedy; medicine; drug
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 81:
- Et eu te ensinarey meezinas conuiniuijs para esta door que chaman uerme en esta maneira
- And I'll teach you the appropriate drugs for this pain that they call worm, in this manner
- Et eu te ensinarey meezinas conuiniuijs para esta door que chaman uerme en esta maneira
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 81:
- (archaic) poisson
Derived terms
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meez”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “menciña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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