morçeguo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moɾ.ˈt͡sɛ.ɡwo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡwo
  • Hyphenation: mor‧çe‧guo

Noun

morçeguo m (plural morçeguos)

  1. alternative form of murcego
    • 15th century, anonymous author, “Batalha entre as aves e as animalias” (chapter XXX), in Fabulae Aesopi in lingua Lusitana, page 21v; republished as José Leite de Vasconcelos, editor, O Livro de Esopo, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1906, page 30:
      Postas as aazes d’anbalas partes, o morçeguo, que vio tanta multidom d’animalias, e que dauam tam grandes vozes, ouue gram temor, e partio-sse das aues, e nom quis teer da hũa parte nem da outra.
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