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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic الْخَسّ (al-ḵass).
Pronunciation
Noun
alfaça f (plural alfaças)
- (Portugal) lettuce
1414, “Da uiꝛgem q̃ moꝛdeo aalfaça [Of the virgin that bit the lettuce]” (chapter XI), in Estêvão Anes Lourido, transl., , book I, translation of Dialogi by Pope Gregory I, unnumbered page:Contou ainda ſam Gregoꝛẏo q̃ huũ dia hũa ſrgent de deꝯ q̃ uȷuẏa no mͦ. daq̃las virgẽẽs. de ſuſo dto q̃ el auẏ ade ueer entrou na oꝛta deſſe mͦ. ⁊ uẏu hũa alfaça muẏ fremoſa ⁊ cobiȷçou a.- Saint Gregory further said that, one day, a God's servant that lived in the monastery, one of those above-said virgins that he should see, entered the vegetable garden and saw a beatiful lettuce, which she coveted.
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