mágoa

Attested since early 15th century. Semi-learned borrowing from Latin macula (“blemish, stain”).^[1] Doublet of malla. Compare Spanish magullar.

• Hyphenation: má‧goa

mágoa f (plural mágoas)

1. minor injury, wound, excoriation

   Synonyms: mancadela, mancadura

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 57:

     garda soude no corpo et nos nenbros do potro Naturalmente et espiçialmente as coixas som llimpas de magooas

     keep the health of the body and the limbs of the foal naturally, specially that the thighs are clean of galls

2. stain, blemish

   Synonym: mancha

3. shame

   Synonym: vergoña/vergonza

   Que mágoa que non veñas! ― It's a shame that you won't come!

4. grief, sorrow

   Synonyms: pena, coita

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “magooa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mágoa”, 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), “mágoa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mágoa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin macula (“stain, fault”), showing preservation of word-internal -u-, lost early in the inherited doublet malha and mancha. Doublet of mancha, malha, mangra, and mácula.

• Rhymes: -aɡwɐ
• Hyphenation: má‧go‧a

mágoa f (plural mágoas)

1. grief; sorrow
   • 1919, Florbela Espanca, “Este Livro...”, in Livro das Mágoas:

     Este livro é de mágoas. Desgraçados / Que no mundo passais, chorai ao lê-lo! / Somente a vossa dor de Torturados / Pode, talvez, senti-lo... e compreendê-lo.

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2. resentment

• magoar