gorentar

• agorentar

Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Perhaps from gorar (“to addle; to covet”), from Proto-Celtic *gʷorīti (“warm up, heat”), once meaning, probably, 'to warm / cook the food';^[1] or from gorir (“to shelter”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ɡoɾenˈtaɾ/, /ɡoɾɛnˈtaɾ/

gorentar (first-person singular present gorento, first-person singular preterite gorentei, past participle gorentado)

1. (intransitive) to have a delicious taste; to be delectable; to relish, to give pleasure
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Tamen bay ese tabeque
     meu velliño, pois fungàs
     que cada grao de èl gorenta,
     con eso as fremas sairàn.

     Also there it goes this tobacco,
     my little old man, since you snivel:
     each grain of it is delectable,
     with this phlegms will go out.

   • 1807, anonymous author, “Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros”, in Ramón Mariño Paz, editor, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846:

     ¡pro o viño eravos testo! tiñavos tan bo olido que resucitaba os mortos, e un sabor que gorentaba

     But the wine was great, pals! It had such a good scent that it raised the dead, and a relishing taste

2. (transitive) to relish

• gorir
• goro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gorentar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “gorentar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gorentar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega