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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese estreito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin strictus. Compare Portuguese estreito, Spanish estrecho and French étroit. Doublet of estrito, which was a borrowing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
estreito (feminine estreita, masculine plural estreitos, feminine plural estreitas)
- narrow
Noun
estreito m (plural estreitos)
- (geography) strait
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “estreito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estreyt”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estreito”, 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), “estreito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estreito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ejtu
- Hyphenation: es‧trei‧to
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese estreito, from Latin strictus. Compare Spanish estrecho and French étroit. Doublet of estrito, which was a borrowing.
Adjective
estreito (feminine estreita, masculine plural estreitos, feminine plural estreitas, comparable, comparative mais estreito, superlative o mais estreito or estreitíssimo)
- narrow (having a small width)
A rua é muito estreita para camiões.- The street is too narrow for lorries.
- (of a relation or connection) close (strong, pronounced, intimate)
Eu me liguei a ele por meio de uma estreita amizade.- I am bound to him by a close friendship.
Descendants
Noun
estreito m (plural estreitos)
- (geography) strait
Etymology 2
Verb
estreito
- first-person singular present indicative of estreitar