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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *mūris caecus. By surface analysis, mur (“mouse”) + cego (“blind”).
Cognate with Old Spanish murciego.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moɾˈt͡sɛɡwo/
- Rhymes: -ɛɡwo
- Hyphenation: mor‧çe‧guo
Noun
morçeguo m (plural morçeguos)
- bat
15th century, anonymous author, “Batalha entre as aves e as animalias” (chapter XXX), in Fabulae Aesopi in lingua Lusitana, page 21v; republished as José Leite de Vasconcelos, editor, O Livro de Esopo, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1906, page 30:Postas as aazes d’anbalas partes, o morçeguo, que vio tanta multidom d’animalias, e que dauam tam grandes vozes, ouue gram temor, e partio-sse das aues, e nom quis teer da hũa parte nem da outra.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1453, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, “No qual o autor poẽ final conclusõ de sua obra” (chapter LRVII), in Cronica dos feitos notavees que se passarom na conquista de Guinee; republished as Torquato de Souza Soares, editor, Lisbon: Academia Portuguesa de História, 1978, page 357:E o primeiro cõpara aas aues que voã de noite/, assy como Murcegos curujas e outras sem,elhantes. cuja vista per alguũ modo nõ pode sofrer a clareza do sol o que o principe dos phillosofos afirma em sua metafisica/. dizendo que tal he o nosso entender cõparado aas cousas que em seus seeres quanto he aa naturalleza som magnifestas como o olho da curuja ou murcego em comparaçom da claridade do sol- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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