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Old Galician-Portuguese
- simildue, symildue, semeldon, semeldue, semeldũe, semeldõẽ, semildue, semeldá (Galicia)
- simildon, semildooen, symildom, simildoom, semildom, semeldom (Portugal)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin similitūdinem (“similarity, resemblance”). The forms with /simil-/ probably reflect Latin influence.
Noun
semelduẽ f (plural semelduẽs)
- likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude
1362, Andrés Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII a XVI, page 116:mando mj̃a alma a Deus padre que a ffezo et a criou aa sua ymagen et asua semeldũe.- I send my soul to God the Father, who made it and created it in His image and likeness
- aspect, look
- 14th or 15th century CE, anonymous, Miragres de Santiago, 125
⁊ ante a semelduẽ das carãtonas, que erã moy feas, espantarõse os caualos- and faced with the sight of the masks, which were rather hideous, the horses were terrified
References
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “semejar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 198
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “semeldon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “semelduẽ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG