lediça
See also: Lediça
Old Galician-Portuguese
FWOTD – 19 February 2013
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin laetitia (“great joy; pleasure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈdit͡sa/
Noun
lediça f
- Great joy; pleasure.
- a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 14 (facsimile):
- E tan toſte que foi morto o Dem a Alma fillou dele. ⁊ con gran lediça logo a leuar Cuidou.
- And as he was quickly killed the Devil seized his Soul. And with great pleasure he soon took it.
- E tan toſte que foi morto o Dem a Alma fillou dele. ⁊ con gran lediça logo a leuar Cuidou.
Synonyms
Descendants
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /lɨˈdi.sɐ/ [lɨˈði.sɐ]
Noun
lediça f (plural lediças)
- alternative form of ledice