podredũe

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Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Medieval Latin putretudinem (puter + -tūdō).

Pronunciation

Noun

podredũe f (plural podredũes)

  1. (Galicia) putrefaction; rottenness
    Synonym: podrẽe
    • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 198:
      E esto asi inchado conven que no peito ou nas coixas rebente ontre o coiro e a carne por moitos lugares para sairen aqueles homores fóra en podredũe
      And this being swelled like that, it is convenient that on the breast or on the thigh it bursts, in between the hide and the flesh, in many places, so this humours get out in rottenness

Descendants

  • Galician: podredume