careza

• Hyphenation: ca‧re‧za

From Old Galician-Portuguese careza (13th century, Pero da Ponte): from caro (“expensive”) +‎ -eza.

careza f (plural carezas)

1. scarcity
   • 1350, A. López Carreira, editor, Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), page 531:

     este aforamento vos fazemos por razon da pestilençia, da mortaldade das jentes e a careza dos jornaes dos ommes

     this leasing we make to you because of the pestilence, the mortality of people and the scarcity of hired work of men

2. expensiveness

   Synonym: carestía

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “careza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “careza”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “careza”, 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), “careza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

careza

1. inflection of carecer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative