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Galician
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese doito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin doctus. Cognate with Portuguese douto and Spanish ducho.
Pronunciation
Adjective
doito (feminine doita, masculine plural doitos, feminine plural doitas)
- (archaic) experienced; used to
- Synonym: afeito
Murmuray murmuradores, que sempre o habedes doyto; murmurade dos casados, que dos solteyros no he moyto (folk song, 18th century)- Gossip gossipers, as you are used to; gossip about the married ones, not much to gossip about bachelors
1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:Dime algùnha còusa dòce
como habes doito, é catá,
que si así no no fazèdes,
me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
como estas cousas se fàn,
è madia tendes, senon
eu êime de encabuxar.- Tell me something sweet
As you are used to, but beware,
if you don't do it like that
I'll take offence, you'll see.
You know well, it could not be otherwise!
how these things are done,
no doubt about it or else
I'll get angry.
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doito”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doito”, 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), “doito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin doctus.
Adjective
doito m (plural doitos, feminine doita, feminine plural doitas)
- experienced
Descendants
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