deostar

From Old Galician-Portuguese deostar, doestar, from Latin dehonestare. Cognate with Portuguese doestar and Spanish denostar.

• IPA^(key): /deɔsˈtaɾ/

deostar (first-person singular present deosto, first-person singular preterite deostei, past participle deostado)

1. (literary) to insult, to slander

   Synonyms: aldraxar, inxuriar

   • 1447, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 44:

     Garçía Fernandes diso que por rasón que os ditos juises e regedores gedores et omes boos do dito conçello o feseran por seu procurador do dito conçello da dita çibdade deste dito ano et o él fora fasta este presente dia, et agora por que alguas personas o deostauan e bitoperauan, por ende que él por ante os ditos juises et regedores e omes boos do dito conçello que se demetía do dito procuratorio, protestando daquy endeante de non seer procurador nen usar do dito procuratorio.

     García Fernández said that because the aforementioned judges and councillors and goodmen of the aforementioned council named him the agent of this city's council for this year, and so he has been till this present day, that now, because some persons slander and vituperate him, consequently that he, before the aforementioned councillors and goodmen of this council, resigns of the aforementioned office, protesting not to be the council's agent henceforth nor to use of this office

• deosto

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “deostar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deost”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deostar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “deostar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “deostar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “deostar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “deostar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN