conda

English

Etymology

Clipping of anaconda (a morph of hognose snake).

Noun

conda (countable and uncountable, plural condas)

  1. (uncountable) A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly.
  2. (countable) A hognose snake of this morph.

Synonyms

Galician

Etymology

From Latin computa. Doublet of conta and cómputo. Cognate with Spanish cuenda.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔnda/ [ˈkɔn̪.d̪ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔnda
  • Hyphenation: con‧da

Noun

conda m (plural condas)

  1. cord used to tie a skein, or either extreme of the thread
    Synonyms: abarasa, costal
    • 1853, J. M. Pintos, A Gaiga Gallega:
      Si quixeras ben podías darme a conda con segredo da madeixa enmarañada que tén deste mundo os feitos e polo fío tirando pouquiño a pouco direito, irían vindo cal peixes que recolle o mariñeiro.
      If you would, you could well give me secretly the extreme of the thread of the entangled skein which holds the facts of this world and, pulling the thread little by little, right away these would come, as the fish that the mariner picks
    • 1984, Ramón Villares, A Historia, Vigo: Galaxia, page 214:
      Deica fins de 1931, en que se funda o Partido Galeguista, o nacionalismo galego era, non obstante, unha mea sen conda, tributo do fracaso na unificación do movemento
      Till the end of 1931, when the Galicianist Party is founded, the Galician nationalism was, notwithstanding, a skein without a bind, a tax due to the failure of the unification of the movement

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cuenda”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

Verb

conda

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

Spanish

Verb

conda

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