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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin *medullum, from Latin medulla.
Noun
meolo m (plural meolos)
- (only attested in the plural) brains
1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “AGora leyya o conto afalar de Pirius. por contar da mezcla q̃ fezerõ o gregos cõ el rrey Napus padre de palomads̃ ⁊ q̃ lleſ poꝛ el aueo” (chapter 464), in Cronica Troiana, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 178:Et atarõ a palomads̃ en hũa corda ⁊ enbiarõ no a fondo. 7 deſpous q̃e o uirõ ajuſo lançarõ lle grands̃ pedras en tal g̃ſa q̃ lle poſerõ os ollos fora ⁊ os meolos da cabeça ⁊ aſi morreu palomads̃ apedreado p g̃ra treỹçõ.- And they tied Palamedes with a rope and threw him to the ground. And after seeing him down, they threw big stones in shuch a way that his eyes popped out and his brains came out of the head and thus Palamedes died by stoning for great treason.
1390, Os Miragres de Santiago; republished as José Luís Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., 1958, page 19:Entõ leuãtou hũu dos fariseus hũu pao de ferro que tomou et doulle cõ el tã grãde ferida na cabeça et estrulloulle todo los meolos et deitoullos fora- Then, one of the Pharisees took one rod of iron and raised it and so strongly struck it against his head that he crushed his brain and threw it out
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