semellar
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese semellar, from Vulgar Latin *similiāre, from Latin similāre, from Latin similis (“similar”). Cognate with Portuguese semelhar, Spanish semejar, French sembler.
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (intrantive, impersonal) to seem
- Semella que vai chover
- It seems that it is going to rain
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:
- Et alí cresçerõ toruões et coriscos et rrelánpagos tã grandes et tã brauos et tã desmesurados que semellaua que todo o mũdo quiría peresçer.
- And there grew such large thunders and rain and lightning, so wild and so boundless, that it seemed that the whole world wanted to perish
- Et alí cresçerõ toruões et coriscos et rrelánpagos tã grandes et tã brauos et tã desmesurados que semellaua que todo o mũdo quiría peresçer.
- (transitive) to resemble; to imitate
- Anoxado semella unha fera
- He resembles a fear when angry
- (pronominal) to resemble, to look alike
- (pronominal) to think, to suspect
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References
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- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “semel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “semellar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *similiāre, from Late Latin similāre, present active infinitive of similō, from Latin similis (“similar”).
Pronunciation
Verb
semellar
- to resemble
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 384 (facsimile):
- ⁊ a outra dazur era / coor mui marauilloſa / que ao çeo ſemella […]
- And the other was blue / a marvelous colour / which resembles the sky […]
- ⁊ a outra dazur era / coor mui marauilloſa / que ao çeo ſemella […]
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