mentiral

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From mentira (“lie”) +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /men.ti.ˈɾal/

Adjective

mentiral

1. untruthful; which lies or deceives

   Synonym: mentioso

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 742:

     Et logo ueu bẽ sua morte, pero ia quanto fuy ledo porque coydou que os soños erã mentiraes

     And right then he clearly saw his death, but he was a little happy, because he thought that the dreams were untruthful

Descendants

• Galician: mentirán

References

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