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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin māla (“apples”) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
maçãa f (plural maçãas)
- apple (fruit)
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- Por ela nos perdõou / deus o pecado Dadam. / da maçãa que goſtou. per / que ſoffreu muit affan.
- By her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.
Descendants
References
- ^ Agnes, Michael, ed. in chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, fourth edition, MacMillan, 1999.