lesma

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested since circa 1409. From Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin limax, limacem, perhaps under the influence of a local Celtic substrate;[1] or from a substrate language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y- (compare Polish ślimak).[2] Compare also the synonyms limacha, limáchega, limaco.

Pronunciation

Noun

lesma f (plural lesmas)

  1. slug (animal)
    Synonyms: limacha, limáchega, limaco
    • c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:
      Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se torne espeso como jngento
      for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, mixed and cooked and stirred till is thick as an ointment
  2. (figuratively) Someone dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space
    Synonyms: lapa, limacha, limáchega, limaco

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “limaza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. ^ Julian Santano Moreno (2008) “IE *(s)lei- "viscoso" en las lenguas romances”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, volumes 49-50, →ISSN, pages 223-262

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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lesma

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *lĭmăcem, from Latin līmācem.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: les‧ma

Noun

lesma f (plural lesmas)

  1. slug (gastropod)
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Noun

lesma m or f by sense (plural lesmas)

  1. (figurative) a slow person
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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: les‧ma

Verb

lesma

  1. inflection of lesmar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative