semellanza – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of semellanza

Noun: semellanza
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fsemellanza
Plural fsemellanzas

Sample Sentences

  • Quando aquel Ihesus, meu señor, ya por la terras preegar, eu avia de moy grãde amor et soydade de veer a sua façe et quigi mãdar pintar a semelança do seu rrostro, que era a mays fremosa criatura do mũdo, en hũu pano por fillar cõ ela prazer et cõforto quando o vise; et querendoo fazer cõteyllo todo, et el pediome o pano et posoo ẽna sua cara et doumo encayado cõ tal figura cal era o seu santo rrostro; (When that Jesus, my Lord, was going about the lands preaching, I had, because of how big was my love, longing for seeing His face; and I wanted to order a paint in the likeness of His face, which was the most beautiful creation in the world, in a cloth, for having joy and confort whenever I saw it; and wanting to do it I told him, and He asked me for the cloth, put it on His face and gave it back to me stuck with a figure that was no other than His holy face;) [1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 47:]

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese semellança, equivalent to semellar + -anza. Compare Portuguese semelhança, Spanish semejanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza. See: Portuguese Nouns 'semelhança', Spanish Nouns 'semejanza', Catalan Nouns 'semblança', French Nouns 'ressemblance'.

Verbs referencing "semellanza"

Spanish Nouns semejanza, Portuguese Nouns semelhança.

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