andadura
Old Spanish
Etymology
From andar (“to walk, go”) + -dura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /andaˈduɾa/
Noun
andadura f (usually uncountable)
- the act of walking or going
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 4v:
- Qvádo lo ſopo labá al dia t́cero. q́ ſe ẏua priſo de ſos amẏgos. E fue trá Jacob. Andadura .vij. dias. e alcáçol en el móte de galaath.
- When Laban came to know on the third day that he was fleeing, he took his relatives and went after Jacob, walking seven days, and he overtook him on the hill of Gilead.
Descendants
- Spanish: andadura
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.daˈdu.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.daˈdu.ɾa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.dɐˈdu.ɾɐ/ [ɐ̃.dɐˈðu.ɾɐ]
- Hyphenation: an‧da‧du‧ra
Noun
andadura f (plural andaduras)
Further reading
- “andadura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish andadura. Analyzable as andar (“to walk, go”) + -dura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /andaˈduɾa/ [ãn̪.d̪aˈð̞u.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: an‧da‧du‧ra
Noun
andadura f (plural andaduras)
- gait
- walking (the act of walking)
- (figuratively) project, work, activity, process (long-term undertaking)
- 2020 January 18, Jaime Santirso, “ByteDance empezó su andadura con un agregador de noticias, Jinri Toutiao, que recurría a la inteligencia artificial para adaptar sus contenidos al usuario.”, in El País:
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Further reading
- “andadura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024