enchenta
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Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]encher (“to fill”) + -ente, from Old Galician-Portuguese encher, from Latin impleō (“to fill up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]enchenta f (plural enchentas)
- flood (overflow of water)
- rising tyde; high tyde
- feast, large meal and the sensation of filling caused by it
- 1840, Manuel Fernandez Magariños, Foliada que fixo o labrador Seor Pedro:
- De cando en cando seu tío espricaballe contento a boa vida dos Curas e dos Frades e dos Cregos, as enchentes que papaban
- From time to time his uncle told him merrily about the good life the parsons, monks and priests lived, the feasts they munched
- (figurative) large quantity of something
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “enchenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “enchenta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “enchenta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “enchenta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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