andrómenas

Galician

Alternative forms

• andrómina, endrómena

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Latin Andromeda. Attested since 1807. Compare Portuguese endrómina and Spanish andrómina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [anˈdɾɔmɪnɐ]

Noun

andrómenas f pl (plural only)

1. wonder, marvel
   • 1820, anonymous author, Tertulia na Quintana:

     Direiche. A mala costume eche Xûncras, e como estaban avezàdos á mandar as talejas cheas de pesos duros a Navarra, faser casas, granxîos, serrádas, e unhas endrómenas para serrar taboa con augua alò na Ulla, e outras partes; ajora, ¡miñas xôias! non lles chega pra nada.

     I will tell you: bad habits are Judas, and since they were used to send sacks full with pesos duros to Navarre, to build houses, farms, enclosures and some marvels for sawing boards with water there in the Ulla river and elsewhere, now, poor things, they have not nearly enough!

2. shenanigans
3. thingy
   • 1807, anonymous author, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     en fin caixas, é caixòs,
     atacados de papeles
     é outras moitas endromenas
     que non sei como lle chaman.

     so, boxes and drawers
     packed with papers
     and many other thingies
     whose name I don't know

4. phony person

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “andrómenas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “andrómenas”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “andrómena”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN