queixar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese queixar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Vulgar Latin *quassiare, from Latin quassāre, present active infinitive of quassō (“I shake”). Compare Portuguese queixar and Spanish quejar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kejˈʃaɾ/

Verb

1. to complain
   • 1289, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 114:

     Demays quando se alguun ou alguus dos ouriuez ou outro qualquer se queixaren dos ueedores dos ouriuez ou dalguun delles dos ouriuez a os vigarios dos canbedores, que elles venan ante os vigarios dos canbeadores et façan dereyto por elles, assy como senpre foy acostumado.

     Also, when any or some of the goldsmiths or any other one complain about the overseer of the goldsmiths or about any one of them to the vicars of the exchangers, that they should come before the vicars of the exchangers and to make right through them, as has always been usual

   Synonym: protestar

2. to whine, whinge

   Synonym: laiar

Derived terms

• aqueixar
• queixa
• queixoso
• queixume

References

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *quassiare, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quassāre, present active infinitive of quassō (“I shake”). Compare Spanish quejar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke(j).ˈʃa(ʁ)/

Verb

1. (pronominal) to complain

   Sempre se queixam. ― They always complain.

   Synonyms: protestar, reclamar

2. (pronominal) to whine, whinge

   Synonyms: lamentar, lamuriar

Derived terms

• queixa