molete
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Moletes
Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1707. From Old French pain mollet (“soft bread”).
Pronunciation
Noun
molete m (plural moletes)
- Galician muffin wheat bread
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
- Christobo:
Eu cortarey o molete.
Cathalina:
Tomà vos essa rigeyfa,
porque tamen e pantrigo.- Christobo:
"I'll cut the muffin"
Cathalina:
"Take that loaf,
because it is also wheat bread"
- Christobo:
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “molete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “molete”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “molete”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Verb
molete
- second-person singular voseo imperative of moler combined with te