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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From mentira (“lie”) + -al
Pronunciation
Adjective
mentiral
- untruthful; which lies or deceives
- Synonym: mentioso
1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 742:Et logo ueu bẽ sua morte, pero ia quanto fuy ledo porque coydou que os soños erã mentiraes- And right then he clearly saw his death, but he was a little happy, because he thought that the dreams were untruthful
Descendants
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mentiral”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mentiral”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mentiraes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega