Noun: feitizo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | feitizo |
| Plural m | feitizos |
Sample Sentences
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c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 16 (this king had a daughter named Medea, and this princess Medea was very knowledgeable in the art of magic and in every enchantment, and in charms of herbs and of other things)
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Meigas, feitizos e bruxas
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que persigue a Inquisicion,
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sin mascara, socaliñas
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de cregos e frades son.
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Chamanlles bruxas à ás vellas
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por ter cara de carton;
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pero solamente hay meygas
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en donde hay Inquisicion.
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As femias da nosa especie
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de certa constitucion
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fan visaxes, e son tolas,
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pero feitizeiras non. (Witches, spells and hexes,
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who are prosecuted by the Inquisition,
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maskless, hoaxes
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of priests and friars are.
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They call hex an old lady
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because her face is made of cardboard;
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but there are witches
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just where it is Inquisition.
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Females of our species,
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of certain constitution,
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make gestures, and are mad,
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but sorceresses they are not.) [1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun escolar gallego:]
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Ora en ti penso disperto,
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ora en ti penso durmindo,
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e sempre en ti estou pensando
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coma si foses feitiço (Now I think about you awake,
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now I think about yow while asleep,
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I'm always thinking about you
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as if you were a spell) [1863, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:]
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O feitizo está nos ollos
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dua nena de Padron:
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as nenas tamen feitizan
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à os cregos da inquisicion.
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Garridiñas, nos chegedes
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a os que manexan tizós,
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que a estopa cabe do fogo
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e vos ua tentacion. (the charm is in the eyes
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of a girl form Padrón:
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the girls also charm
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the priests of the Inquisition.
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Beautiful ladies, don't come near
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the ones who handle the brand,
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because the tow by the fire
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it's too much of a temptation.) [1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun escolar gallego:]
Nouns inflected like feitizo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1350 (feytizeo). From Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Cognate with Portuguese feitiço, Asturian fechizu and Spanish hechizo. See: Latin Nouns '
factīcius', Portuguese Nouns '
feitiço', Spanish Nouns '
hechizo'.
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