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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escolleyto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from escoller (“to select”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
escolleito (feminine escolleita, masculine plural escolleitos, feminine plural escolleitas)
- selected, chosen
- Synonym: escollido
1502, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 351:quatro tẽẽgas de castañas secas e linpas e escolleytas- four bushels of dry, clean and selected chestnuts
- picky
Participle
escolleito (feminine escolleita, masculine plural escolleitos, feminine plural escolleitas)
- (irregular) past participle of escoller
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escolleyto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escolleyt”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escolleito”, 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), “escolleito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega