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Ali venden millo Trigo è mais centeo Fabas è castañas Roupa è trapos vellos; Tamen venden louza De côr branco e prêto, Hai tendas do chan E tamen cubertos Con cousas do uso Todas a bon prezo
There they sell corn wheat and also rye beans and chestnuts clothes and old rags also they sell dishware of colour white and black, there they sell on the ground and also under cover with handy things all at a good price
References
“preto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“preto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“preto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“preto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
From Old Galician-Portuguesepreto(“black, near”), from earlier *apreto, from apretar (Modern Portuguese apertar(“tighten, press, clamp”)), from Late Latinappectorāre, from Latinpectus(“chest”). The semantic evolution to "black" or "dark" comes through the sense of "dense" or "thick". See also the related perto. Another common, but less likely, etymology suggested is a Vulgar Latin *prettus, from pressus.
“preto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024