Noun: lenda
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | lenda |
| Plural f | lendas |
Sample Sentences
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En Galicia contamos cun importante testemuño literario deste asunto na lenda da traslación dos restos do apóstolo Santiago, recollida no libro III do Codex Calixtinus, redactado no século XII. (In Galicia we have an important literary account on this matter: the legend of the translation of the remains of the apostle Saint James, collected in the third book of the Codex Calixtinus, written during the 12th century.) [2006, Xosé Manuel González Reboredo, Lendas galegas de tradición oral, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 27:]
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c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Glosario. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 652 (And God made so much grace and gave me such an inteligence and [made me] so cunning that I learned aljamiado and all the script of the Moors)
Nouns inflected like lenda
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese leenda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints, originally things to be read”), neuter plural of the future past participle of legō (“to read”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
leenda'.
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