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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese christião, borrowed from Latin Christiānus; compare the archaic semi-learned Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese crischão, common during the low Middle Ages.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cristián (feminine cristiá, masculine plural cristiáns, feminine plural cristiás)
- Christian
Noun
cristián m (plural cristiáns, feminine cristiá, feminine plural cristiás)
- a Christian
- (informal) a human
- Os animais son coma os cristiáns ― Animals are just like persons
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “christião”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “christi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cristián”, 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), “cristián”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cristián”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN