Noun: quinta feira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Feita carta in era de mil ducentos et novaenta et quatro annos, na primeira quinta feyra de iuyo, rey don Alfonso reynant in Leon et in Castella, don Migael bispo en Lugo, don Ruy Sueriz meyrino mayor en Galliza
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Deed made in era of a thousand and two hundred and ninety-four years [AD 1256], the first Thursday of June, king Don Alfonso reigning in Leon and Castille, Don Miguel bishop in Lugo, Don Roi Suárez governor in Galicia [1256, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 719]
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E pois eu tamén lle ofrezo
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duas ducias de regeyfas,
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seis moletes, dèz galiñas,
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que teño na capoeyra,
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e mais vn par de capòs
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que m'àn de dar quintafeyra. (And so also I offer her
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two dozens loaves,
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six muffins, ten hens that
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I have in the coop
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and a pair of capons
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they'll give me Thursday) [1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:]
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iba eu á confeson / á miñan de quinta feira / é non achei confesor (I was going to confess / Thursday morning / but I found no confessor) [1807, anonymous author, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:]
Nouns inflected like quinta feira
metafísica,
serina,
quitamerendas,
míllaras,
orixinalidade,
mobilidade,
constitucionalidade,
terza feira,
auga doce,
fotosíntese,
glutamina,
barbas de raposo,
ximnasia,
crioloxía,
microbioloxía,
filoloxía,
petanca,
ELA,
gravitación,
quintaesencia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese quinta feira, from Ecclesiastical Latin fēria quīnta (“Thursday”, literally “fifth weekday”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
quinta feira'.
Verbs referencing "quinta feira"
Portuguese Nouns
quinta-feira.
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