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Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From gordo (“fat”) + -ura.
Pronunciation
Noun
gordura f (plural gorduras)
- thickness
- Synonyms: grosor, grosura
1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo et que sejan da grosura que diser Diego Afonso, e aja en cabo cada trabe hun furco de grosura, et eno outro cabo aquela gordura que rasonauel for, según diser o dito Diego Afonso.- Item, the aforementioned Gonzalvo Fernández and Gonzalvo Ferreiro committed to bring, for the work of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beans of oak, each one twenty seven cubits in long and the thickness that Diego Afonso would say, and in one extreme each bean must have half a palm in thick, and in the other whatever thickness which is reasonable, according to what Diego Afonso would say
- fatness; obesity
- Synonym: gordén
c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 123:Et guareçeu daquela gordura et tornou a seer delgado como outro ome que delgado se.- And he healed of said obesity and came back to be thin as another man who is thin
- fat tissue
- Synonyms: gordén, graxa
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gordura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gordura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gordura”, 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), “gordura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gordura”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
From gordo (“fat (adj.)”) + -ura.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: gor‧du‧ra
Noun
gordura f (plural gorduras)
- fat (specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy)
- Synonyms: tecido adiposo, (of a pig, as food) toicinho
- fat (substance)
- Synonyms: graxa, banha, enxúndia, unto
- (uncountable) fatness (state of being fat)
- Synonyms: obesidade, gordice, corpulência, adiposidade
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
From gordo + -ura.
Noun
gordura f (plural gorduras)
- fatness
Descendants
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