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Galician
Pronunciation
Adverb
pouco e pouco
- little by little
- Synonyms: aos poucos, pouco a pouco
c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 868:Et asi os forõ escarmentando de todas partes, pouco et pouco, de nõ seyrẽ tã derreniadamẽte com̃o eno começo faziã- And so they were teaching them a lesson every which way, little by little, not to go out in such a desarray as in the beginning they did
1895, A. López Ferreiro, O Castelo de Pambre, Santiago de Compostela: Alende, page 132:co afán de averiguar o que pasaba, forase chegando pouco e pouco e a furtadelas astra aparapetarse detrás dunha rocha que estaba antr'os chaparros- with the intention of finding out what was going on, he had been getting near little by little and furtively until he got undercover behind a rock that was among the shrubs
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pouco et pouco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pouco e pouco”, 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), “pouco e pouco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pouco e pouco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN