enfesta
Galician
Etymology 1
Either from Latin īnfestus (“hostil”); or from en- + -festo, from Germanic: compare French faîte (“top, summit”) and German First (“ridge”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɱˈfɛsta̝/
Noun
enfesta f (plural enfestas)
- top; high place
- slope
- 1289, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, editor, Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 671:
- por esse rio de Villa de Jusaa et pela fonte da Caal et por esse marcho que se ena enfesta de contra a ygregia
- by the river of Vila de Xusá, by the fountain of the channel, and by that landmark which is in the slope next to the church
- plough pin; rod that connects the beam and the shoe or the plough
- Synonym: teiroa
Derived terms
- Enfesta
- Enfestela
Adjective
enfesta
- feminine singular of enfesto
- c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 838:
- cortou et tallou vinas et ortas et pães et o que achou, que nõ leixou y cousa enfesta
- He cut down the vineyards and gardens and corn fields and everything that that he found, as he didn't leave there anything standing
Derived terms
Adverb
enfesta
- (archaic) upwards
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “enfesta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enfesta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “enfesta”, 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), “enfesta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enfesta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “enhiesto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Etymology 2
Verb
enfesta
- inflection of enfestar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative