Odimira

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic وَادٍ (wādin, “river”) + Pre-Celtic *mira.

Proper noun

Odimira

1. A city in southern Portugal.
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 237 (facsimile):

     daqueſto uos contarei. un miragre mui fremoſo. que fez a madre do Reẏ. iheſu criſt en Odimira.

     Of this I will tell you a very magnificent miracle that the mother of the king Jesus Christ in Odemira.

Descendants

• Portuguese: Odemira