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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic المُطْلِيَة (al-muṭliya).
Noun
almetolia f (plural almetolias)
- vessel for oily liquids
14th century, “Dos vasos e candieiros d'ouro, que Deus mandou fazer” (chapter 46), in Historias d'abreviado testamento velho; republished as Fortunato de São Boaventura, editor, Collecção de ineditos portuguezes dos seculos XIV e XV, volume 2, Coimbra: Real Imprensa da Universidade, 1829, page 126:Este candieiro tijnha set cabeças iguaes, en que poinham set candieiros, ou luzernas, e aviam hij set almetolias d'ouro, de que lançavam o azeit enos candieiros […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
- José Pedro Machado (1995) “Almotolia”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 210, column 1