aborigenes

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Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin aborīginēs.

    Noun

    aborigenes m pl

    1. (Roman mythology, hapax) Aborigines (the earliest inhabitants of central Italy)
      • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Xeral Historia [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria: versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 106:
        Et desto, em tẽpo de Seruc, prinçepe [a que] chamauã Tybre, rrey de hũas gentes [a que] diziã os aborigenes, vẽeo cõ sua oste aaquela terra de Rroma, et fezo hũa pobla acerca daquel rrio Tibre []
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    Descendants

    • Galician: aborixe
    • Portuguese: aborígene

    References

    • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “aborigenes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega