traizón

Galician

Alternative forms

• traiçom, traição (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese traiçon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin traditiō. Doublet of tradición. Cognate with Portuguese traição and Spanish traición.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɾajˈθoŋ]

Noun

traizón m (plural traizóns)

1. treason
2. disloyalty, treachery
   • 1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 72:

     ajnda que d'aqui escapes, nũca podremos entrar na villa ca elles la am tomada por trayzõ et poserõ por las torres et por los muros et por las portas mays de mjll caualeyros que ende estã

     even if you escape from here, never we will manage to enter the city, because they have it as captured by treachery, and they have posted by the towers and walls and gates more than a thousand knights, that thenceforth there are

Derived terms

• traizoar
• traizoeiro

Related terms

• traidor

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “traiçon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• "traiçon" in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “traizón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “traizón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega