lediça

See also: Lediça

Old Galician-Portuguese

FWOTD – 19 February 2013

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin laetitia (“great joy; pleasure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈdit͡sa/

Noun

lediça f

1. Great joy; pleasure.
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 14 (facsimile):

     E tan toſte que foi morto o Dem a Alma fillou dele. ⁊ con gran lediça logo a leuar Cuidou.

     And as he was quickly killed the Devil seized his Soul. And with great pleasure he soon took it.

Synonyms

• prazer

Descendants

• Galician: ledicia
• Portuguese: ledice, lediça

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈdi.sɐ/ [lɨˈði.sɐ]

Noun

lediça f (plural lediças)

1. Alternative form of ledice

Derived terms

• Lediça