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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese lençoo (13th century), from Latin linteolum. Cognate with Portuguese lençol and Spanish lenzuelo.
Pronunciation
Noun
lenzó m (plural lenzós)
- (archaic) bedsheet
- 1258, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 70:
- mãdo mia carne a Sancta Maria de Ferreyra τ mãdo y conmigo un leyto τ j.a cozedra τ un feltro τ j a colcha τ ij. fazeyróóſ τ ij lenzóóſ τ La ſoldoſ para pitãza
- I bequeath my body to Santa María de Ferreira, and I bequeath there with me a bed and a mattress and a felt and a quilt and two pillows and two sheets and fifty solidi for pittance
- Synonyms: lenzo, saba
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lençoo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega