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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese antano, from Latin ante annum. Compare Portuguese antano and Spanish antaño.
Pronunciation
Adverb
antano
- last year
- 1414, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 104:
- Item ha de dar conta Afonſo de Meylaen do pan de antano τ de oganno
- Item, Afonso de Meilán must give account of the grain of last year and of this year
Pan de hoxe, carne de onte e viño de antano, manteñen o home sano. (proverb)- Today's bread, yesterday's meat and last year's wine, keep a man sound.
- (figurative) yore
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “antano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “antano”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “antano”, 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), “antano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “antano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese antano, from Latin ante annum.
Pronunciation
Adverb
antano
- Alternative form of antanho