leenda
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin legenda (“a legend, story, especially the lives of the saints, originally things to be read”), neuter plural of the future past participle of Latin legō (“I read”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.
Cognate with Old Spanish leyenda.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leenda f (plural leendas)
- an hagiographic work (biography of a Christian saint)
Descendants
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- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Old Galician-Portuguese nouns
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