xantar

xantar (first-person singular indicative present xanto, past participle xantáu)

1. (Western Asturian) Alternative form of xintar

• jantar (reintegrationist)
• xentar

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, from Latin ientāre, present active infinitive of ientō. Cognate with Portuguese jantar, Asturian xintar and Spanish yantar.

• IPA^(key): /ʃanˈtaɾ/

xantar m (plural xantares)

1. dinner (midday main meal)

   O que ben almorza escusa o xantar (proverb) ― He who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.

2. lunch
   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta

     I'm running for the loaf, if I find lunch to eat, because yet this afternoon I ought to spread a large pile of dung

3. (historical) a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative
   • 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:

     dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas

     you'll give this monastery's abbess a "dinner" each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this "dinner" a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

xantar (first-person singular present xanto, first-person singular preterite xantei, past participle xantado)

1. to dinner (afternoon main meal)
   • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

     Polas tres da tarde
     Xantei à desexo
     C’o à miña muller,
     Aurora, è a nena
     Que a tiña a nai
     Garimada ao peito

     Around three in the afternoon
     I dinnered to my liking
     with my wife,
     Aurora, and the girl
     that the mother had
     close to her bosom

2. to lunch
3. to eat

   Synonym: comer

• casa de xantar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “jantar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jantar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xantar”, 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), “xantar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xantar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN