corta feira
Galician
Alternative forms
- carta feira, corta, cuarta feira
- corta-feira (reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese quarta feira, from Ecclesiastical Latin quārta fēria (“Wednesday”, literally “fourth weekday”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɔɾta ˈfejɾɐ]
Noun
corta feira f (plural cortas feiras)
- Wednesday
- 1596, Pedro Obeso, Benito Valverde, Carta ao Conde de Gondomar:
- oxe corta feyra 2 de outubre de 96
- today, Wednesday, October 2nd of 1596
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
- Polo fio d'unha roca
ó estagamo seme bay,
é cortafeira coideiche
que acababa de finar.- By the thread of a distaff
my stomach is going away,
and Wednesday I though
that I had just died.
- By the thread of a distaff
- 1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa:
- Ainda estuven aló cortafeira
- I went there on Wednesday
- 1881, folk-song:
- Hoxe é luns, mañán é martes, / Carta feira logo vén, / De mañán en oito días / É a semana que vén
- today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, Wednesday swiftly comes; from tomorrow in eight days it is next week
- Synonym: mércores
References
- “quarta feira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “quarta feira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cortafeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “corta feira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “corta feira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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