comparanza

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1697. From Latin comparantia or rather from comparar + -anza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kompaˈɾanθɐ], (western) [kompaˈɾansɐ]

Noun

comparanza f (plural comparanzas)

  1. comparison
    Synonym: comparación
    • 1697, Juan del Rio, Xa que nos puxo o certamen:
      Trouguen esta comparanza;
      Porque todo ò mundo veja,
      No que foron ò que vay
      Do gran Iulio ò gran Fonseca.
      I brought this comparison
      For every one to see
      In what they were what it goes
      From Julius the Great to Fonseca the Great
    • 1884, O tío Marcos da Portela, volume 2, number 45, page 1:
      na compaña dos meus bos amigos Benito das Vacalouras e Martiño de Zamora, metínme nun deses wagós do camiño de ferro d'Ourense a Vigo, i anque fumos nel como sardiñas en banasta, non tivemos queixa, porque neso da comparanza das sardiñas, nosoutros éramos das cabezudas, i as que levábamos á beira eran das escochadas, frescas e pequerrechiñas e cun sal
      in the company of my good friends Benito das Vacalouras and Martiño from Zamora, I entered one of those wagons of the railroad from Ourense to Vigo and, even if we travelled packed as sardines, we had no complaint, because on that comparison we were as sardines with head, but those next to us were as headless sardines, fresh and small and salted

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