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Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muɾˈθeɡo/ , /muɾˈθɛɡo/
- IPA(key): (standard) /muɾˈθeɡo/ , /muɾˈθɛɡo/
- IPA(key): (gheada) /muɾˈθeħo/ , /muɾˈθɛħo/
- IPA(key): (gheada and seseo) /muɾˈseħo/ , /muɾˈsɛħo/
Noun
murcego m (plural murcegos)
- alternative form of morcego
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mūris caecus. By surface analysis, mur (“mouse”) + cego (“blind”).
Cognate with Old Spanish murciego.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muɾ.ˈt͡sɛ.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -ɛɡo
- Hyphenation: mur‧ce‧go
Noun
murcego m (plural murcegos)
- bat
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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