comborza

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese combooça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from a Celtic substrate language. Cognate with Spanish combleza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈbɔɾθa̝/

Noun

comborza f (plural comborzas)

1. (archaic) love rival, any of two women who share or rival for a lover
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 732:

     Et, sen falla, nõ forõ estas as primeyras cõbooças que se mal quiserõ, nẽ serã as postremeyras.

     And, off course, they were not the first love rivals to detest each other, nor they will be the last ones

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “combooça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “booça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “comborza”, 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), “comborza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega