doente

From Old Galician-Portuguese doente, from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).

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doente m or f (plural doentes)

1. sick (in poor health)

   Synonym: enfermo

   Antonym: san

   • 1292, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 47:

     eu Pedro Peláez de Vilar, jazendo doente no corpo e sao na memoria [...]

     I, Pedro Peláez de Vilar, lying sick of my body but sound in my memory

2. aching
3. rabid (e.g. a dog)
4. (figurative) mad, furious

   Que foi? Estás doente? ― What happens? Are you rabid?

doente m or f by sense (plural doentes)

1. a sick person

   Synonyms: enfermo, paciente

   • 1327, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 79:

     e proueam á dita albergaría de leytos e de feltros et mantas e de cubertas e manteñan y hun ome e hua moller que aguarde a roupa e faça os leytos aos doentes e os caldos quando lles conpryr

     and they should provide that hospital with beds and felts and blankets and covers, and they should keep there a man and a woman who should guard the clothes and make the beds of the sick and the hot soup when they would need it

   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:

     Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello

     I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come swiftly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooling, he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel

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• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doente”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doente”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doente”, 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), “doente”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “doente”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese doente, from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering”). Compare Spanish doliente, Italian dolente. Doublet of dolente, a borrowing.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: do‧en‧te

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doente m or f (plural doentes)

1. sick (in poor health)

   Synonyms: enfermo, fraco, mal debilitado, enfermiço, débil

   Antonyms: saudável, sadio

2. weak
3. sad
4. (informal) mad, crazy

doente m or f by sense (plural doentes)

1. a sick person

   Synonyms: enfermo, paciente

2. (colloquial, informal) a crazy or mad person

• Kabuverdianu: duenti