desinteria

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dysenteria, borrowed from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-) + ἔντερον (énteron) + -ία (-ía).

Noun

desinteria f (uncountable)

1. (hapax, pathology) dysentery
   • 1460, Rui Vasques, [Crónica de Santa María de Iria]; republished as chapter 1, in José António Souto Cabo, editor, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, 2001, page 116:

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     [Et enton o señor Santiago lançou enõs mouros tanta desinteria et menaçõ, que os mays et os mellores que vijnã cõ el rrey Almeçor morrerõ máá morte sopitanja de menaçõ.]

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Descendants

• Galician: disentería
• Portuguese: disenteria

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “desinteria”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “desinteria”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG