ordenanza

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ordenança, from ordenar. By surface analysis, ordenar +‎ -anza. Compare Portuguese ordenança and Spanish ordenanza.

Pronunciation

Noun

ordenanza f (plural ordenanzas)

  1. ordinance (local law)
    • 1434, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 609:
      Manda o conçello et os alcalldes, regidores et procuradores desta villa da crunna de parte de noso sennor el Rey et do dito conçello da dita villa et porque asi he ordenança antiga que nehunus çapateiros et outras quasquer personas que non sejan çapateiros et vezinnos et moradores da dita villa et en ela non pagan talla con os outros çapateiros vezjnnos da dita villa que non son confrades dos çapateiros asi como os çapateiros de portal, que non vsen dos ditos ofiçios de çapateria nen vendan çapatos nen botas nen outro calçado de coiro en publico nen ascondido nen los ponnan en tendas nen portaes nen anden a vender por la dita villa et pescaria dela Et desde Palavea et media legoa da villa enderredor a villa saluo se os venderen a engros aos ditos çapateiros que viuen et moran na dita villa ou eles os consentiren vender en seus portaes.
      the council and mayors, councilmen and agents of this town of A Coruña, on behalf of our lord the King and of this town council, and because so it is an old ordinance; that no shoemaker or whichever other person who is not a shoemaker and neighbour and dweller of the said town and in it they did not pay contributions with the other shoemakers neighbours of the said town and which are not a brother of the guild of the shoemakers, as well as the shoemakers who work at their porches; that they should not use of this office of shoemaking nor should they sell shoes nor boots nor any other leather footwear, nor publicly, nor in hiding, nor should they put them in shops nor porches nor should they go selling them around this town and its fishery , nor from Palavea and half a league around this town, except if they sell them in bulk to the said shoemakers that live and dwell in the said town or if they let them sell at their porches
  2. (dated) order, command, edict

Noun

ordenanza m (plural ordenanzas)

  1. subaltern

References

Spanish

Etymology

From ordenar +‎ -anza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /oɾdeˈnanθa/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /oɾdeˈnansa/
  • Rhymes: -anθa
  • Rhymes: -ansa
  • Syllabification: or‧de‧nan‧za

Noun

ordenanza m or f by sense (plural ordenanzas)

  1. orderly
  2. messenger

Noun

ordenanza f (plural ordenanzas)

  1. ordinance
  2. (law) order, bylaw
    la ordenanza en vigorthe current bylaw
    violar la ordenanza
    violate the bylaw
    promulgar una ordenanza
    publish a bylaw
    • 2015 July 4, “Colau exhibe contundencia en sus primeros 15 días como alcaldesa”, in El País:
      La ordenanza prevé multar la mendicidad organizada o la prostitución en la calle.
      The bylaw envisages the fining of organized begging and street-level prostitution.

Descendants

  • Cebuano: ordinansa
  • Tagalog: ordenansa

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