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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese frigir, from Latin frīgere (“to fry”).
Pronunciation
Verb
frixir (first-person singular present frixo, first-person singular preterite frixín, past participle frixido, short past participle frito)
- (transitive) to fry
- Synonym: fritir
1813, anonymous author, Conversa no Adro da Igrexa:— [...] despois poñíanvos na tortura do potro, atandovos antes os pés e as más; despois levabades oito garrotes; e si con todo esto non confesabades, fasíanvos tragar unha chea d'agua para que arremedásedes os afogados. Mais esto era pouco, que remataban a festa poñendovos os pés encoiro untados de pingo nun sepo, e despois traían unha chea de lume pra frixílos, ou pra poñerllo debaixo, e outras mil xudiadas, tanto que ás veses nin aínda lles permitían confesarse.
—¡Ave María! Eu confesaría o que me preguntasen, aún cando no'fixese.
—Eu o mesmo.- — after this they would take you to the rack, tying your hands and your feet; after this they would hit you eight times with a club; and if, in spite of this, you didn't confess, then they obliged you to shallow a large quantity of water as if you should resemble a drowned man. But this was not enough, because they ended the celebration putting your bare feet, buttered with fat, in a clamp, and they would bring a large fire for frying them, or for putting them under it; and another thousand mean things. They even sometimes don't allowed them to confess.
—Ave María! I would admit anything they would ask, even if I had not done it.
—Me too.
Conjugation
Conjugation of frixir (irregular short past participle)
1Usually used with auxiliary verbs ser and estar.
2Usually used with auxiliary verbs haber and ter.
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peyxe frigido”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “frixir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “frixir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “frixir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN