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Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1707. From aguillón (“sting”), suffixed with -ada. Cognate with Spanish aguijada.
Pronunciation
Noun
aguillada f (plural aguilladas)
- cattle prod, goad
- Synonym: aguillón
1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:Alberte falemos craros
nosoutros temos a culpa,
que se foramos armados
con aguilladas e chuzos,
ouberàmos de botalos
alò para en cas de Iudas.- "Alberte, let's we make this clear:
we are to blame,
because if we had been armed
with goads and spears
we would had drove them back
there until Judas's house."
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aguillada”, 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), “aguillada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aguillada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN