lesma
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Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested since circa 1409. From Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin limax, limacem, perhaps under the influence of a local Celtic substrate;[1] or from a substrate language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y- (compare Polish ślimak).[2] Compare also the synonyms limacha, limáchega, limaco.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlesma/ [ˈlez̺.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -esma
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛsma/ [ˈlɛz̺.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -ɛsma
- Hyphenation: les‧ma
Noun
[edit]lesma f (plural lesmas)
- slug (animal)
- c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:
- Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se torne espeso como jngento
- for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, mixed and cooked and stirred till is thick as an ointment
- (figuratively) Someone dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space
References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lesmez”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lesma”, 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), “lesma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lesma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “limaza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- ^ Julian Santano Moreno (2008) “IE *(s)lei- "viscoso" en las lenguas romances”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique[1], volumes 49-50, →ISSN, pages 223-262
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *lĭmăcem, from Latin līmācem.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: les‧ma
Noun
[edit]lesma f (plural lesmas)
- slug (gastropod)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:lesma.
Noun
[edit]lesma m or f by sense (plural lesmas)
- (figurative) a slow person
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:lesma.
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: les‧ma
Verb
[edit]lesma
- inflection of lesmar:
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Celtic languages
- Galician terms derived from substrate languages
- Galician terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/esma
- Rhymes:Galician/esma/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Galician/ɛsma
- Rhymes:Galician/ɛsma/2 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- Galician terms with quotations
- gl:Mollusks
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- pt:Gastropods