malsin
See also: malsín
Ladino
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish malsin (“informant”), from Hebrew מַלְשִׁין.[1]
Noun
[edit]malsin m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מלסין)[1]
- informant; informer; delator (tattler)
- Hypernym: informador
- 1995, Aki Yerushalayim[1], numbers 49–52, page 14:
- Es solo en 1574 ke la Inkizision avrio un tribunal permanente en Santiago, i pasaron mas de 30 anyos asta ke su influensa fuera konsentida en Ribadavia, i esto solo despues ke un malsin de entre los konversos de la sivdad, Jeronimo Bautista de Mena, denunsio a serka 14.
- It is only in 1574 that the Inquisition opened a permanent tribunal in Santiago, and more than thirty years passed until its influenced was consented to in Ribadavia, and this only after an informer from among the converts in the city of Jeronimo Bautista de Mena denounced about fourteen [people].
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Old Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hebrew מַלְשִׁין.
Noun
[edit]malsin m (plural malsines)
- informant; informer; delator (tattler)
- 13th century, Alfonso X, edited by Cayetano Rosell, Cronicas de los Reyes de Castilla[2], volume 68, M. Rivadeneyra, published 1877, page 66:
- É en esta fiesta de la coronacion del Rey llegaron alguns judios de las aljamas al Rey, é dixeronle que su merced fuese de les dar an alvalá para su Alguacil, que si ellos le mostrasen é dixesen que entre ellos era algun judio malsin, que le ficiese matar; ca decian que siempre ovieran ellos por costumbre de matar cualquier judio que era malsin.
- And in the King's coronation celebration some Jews came from the aljamas to him, and they said to him that his grace was to give them a letter for their sheriff, that they could show and tell him that amongst them was a Jewish informant who was to kill him, because they said that there was always a custom of killing any Jew who was an informant.
Descendants
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]malsin m (plural malsines)
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