ançião
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
- ançiao, ançiano, anciano
Etymology
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *anteānus. Documented from the thirteenth century.
Adjective
ançião
Noun
ançião
Descendants
- Portuguese: ancião
- Galician: ancián, auçião (archaic), anciao (central, eastern), anciam (reintegrationist), ancião (reintegrationist)
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ançião”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega