alfaça

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic الْخَسّ (al-ḵass).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /alˈfat͡sa/
    • Rhymes: -at͡sa
    • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧ça

    Noun

    alfaça f (plural alfaças)

    1. (Old Portuguese) lettuce
      • 1414, “Da uiꝛgem q̃ moꝛdeo aalfaça [Of the virgin that bit the lettuce]” (chapter XI), in Estêvão Anes Lourido, transl., [dialogo de ſam Gꝛegoꝛio], book I, translation of Dialogi by Pope Gregory I, unnumbered page:
        Contou ainda ſam Gregoꝛẏo q̃ huũ dia hũa ſrgent de deꝯ q̃ uȷuẏa no mͦ. daq̃las virgẽẽs. de ſuſo dto q̃ el auẏ ade ueer entrou na oꝛta deſſe mͦ. ⁊ uẏu hũa alfaça muẏ fremoſa ⁊ cobiȷçou a.
        Saint Gregory further said that, one day, a God's servant that lived in the monastery, one of those above-said virgins that he should see, entered the vegetable garden and saw a beautiful lettuce, which she coveted.

    Descendants

    • Portuguese: alface

    References

    • Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “alface”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
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