quenta
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Galician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Back-formation from quentar (“to heat; to beat up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]quenta f (plural quentas)
- admonishment, rebuke
- beating, bashing
- Synonym: malleira
- 1753, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Mingotiña, si está alá:
- Tu ven puderas calar,
por que si o Demo te tènta,
hache de dar unha quenta
que te hà de por a pelar:- Rather you should shut up
because if the Devil tempts you
he's going to give you a beating
enough to peel you
- Rather you should shut up
- urgency, rush
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “quenta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “quenta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “quenta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]quenta
- inflection of quentar: