máis pouco

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mais pouco: from máis (“more”) + pouco (“little”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

máis pouco

  1. less
    Synonym: menos
    • 1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez, editor, O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra, Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:
      nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazerados et dende ajuso se mays pouco trouxesen que se aviesen con o procurador dos ditos lazerados
      carrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a half of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers; and if less they brought then they must reach an agreement with the procurator of said lepers
    • 1838, Florencio Pol, Espello de Deputados:
      Tantismo ben nos quería e nós tamén tanto a el, que nin sin nós s'afacía, nin nós máis pouco sin el
      So much he loved us, and also we loved him, that he could not habituate without us, and less us without him

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