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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dysenteria, borrowed from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-) + ἔντερον (énteron) + -ία (-ía).
Noun
desinteria f (uncountable)
- (hapax, pathology) dysentery
1460, Rui Vasques, ; republished as chapter 1, in José António Souto Cabo, editor, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, 2001, page 116:(please add the primary text of this quotation)- [Et enton o señor Santiago lançou enõs mouros tanta desinteria et menaçõ, que os mays et os mellores que vijnã cõ el rrey Almeçor morrerõ máá morte sopitanja de menaçõ.]
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