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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese combooça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from a Celtic substrate language.[1] Cognate with Spanish combleza.
Pronunciation
Noun
comborza f (plural comborzas)
- (archaic) love rival, any of two women who share or rival for a lover
1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 732:Et, sen falla, nõ forõ estas as primeyras cõbooças que se mal quiserõ, nẽ serã as postremeyras.- And, off course, they were not the first love rivals to detest each other, nor they will be the last ones
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “combooça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “booça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “comborza”, 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), “comborza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega