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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cõẽgo, from Late Latin canonicus (“canon”), from Ancient Greek κανονικός (kanonikós). Cognate with Portuguese cónego, Spanish canónigo.
Pronunciation
Noun
cóengo m (plural cóengos)
- (ecclesiastical) canon (member of a cathedral's chapter)
1389, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 207:mando que non possan tomar as ditas pesoas et coengos et homes boos da dita iglesia por panigoados os ofiçiales conuen a saber os carpenteiros et pedreiros et carniçeyros et ferreyros et çapateyros et peliteyros et mercadores- I command that no churchman or canon or good man of that church could take for a stooge any official, i.e., the carpenters and stonemasons and butchers and smiths and shoemakers and furriers and merchants
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “coengo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cuengo”, 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), “cóengo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega