poxar

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pojar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *podiare, from podium.

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Verb

poxar (first-person singular present poxo, first-person singular preterite poxei, past participle poxado)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) to arise, to increase; to excel
    • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento, page 89:
      Aqueste [...] poja et alcãça noble prez et grãde valor
      This one excels and reaches a noble prize and a large value
  2. (archaic, transitive) to exceed
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 57:
      elles aprenderam de Noe queo outro deluvio pasado que pojara quinze couedos sobre omays alto mõte do mũdo
      they learnt from Noah that the past Deluge exceeded fifteen cubits over the highest mountain of the world
  3. (archaic, transitive) to push up, to cause to grow
  4. to auction
  5. to bid
    • 1394, A. Cabana Outeiro, editor, O Tombo H da catedral de Santiago. Documentos anteriores a 1397, Valga: Concello de Valga, page 97:
      Entón o dito meestrescolla disso que pojaua a teença de Quinçãa em oytoçentas liuras, e logo Ruj d'Órdẽes, cóengo da dita igleia, que presente staua, disso que pojaua e pojou a dita teença de Quinçãa em mill e dosentas libras
      Then the aforementioned schoolmaster said that he was bidding for the possession of Quinzán eight hundred pounds; and then Roi de Ordes, canon of this mentioned church, who was present, said that he was going to bid, and he bid for the aforementioned possession of Quinzán a thousand and two hundred pounds
  6. (intransitive, of cows) to come to the end of the pregnancy

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