officiais

officiais

1. first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of officier

officiais

1. (obsolete) plural of official
   • 1498, João José Alves Dias, Cortes Portuguesas. Reinado de D. Manuel I: Cortes de 1498 [Portuguese Courts. Reign of King Manuel I: Courts of 1498]‎^[1], 1st edition, Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Históricos da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, published 2002, Capítulos Gerais – Nobreza — Apresentação e Pedido [General Chapters — Nobility — Presentation and Request] (section 4.01), page 43:

     Peticão a El Rey em que os Fidalgos e Caualleiros que tem quintas e olivais no termo desta Cidade se queixam ao dito Senhor dos officiais mechanicos della que lhes fazem muitos damnos indo aos Domingos e dias santos Cassar tordos no tempo das novidades

     Petition to the King in which the noblemen and knights who have farms and olive groves in the outskirts of this city complain to the said lord about the mechanical officers who do them a lot of damage by going out on Sundays and holy days to hunt thrushes during the novelty season

   • 1549, Sancho de Noronha, Francisco Correia, Tractado moral de louuores & perigos dalgũs estados seculares & das obrigações que neles ha com exortacam em cada estado de que se trata [A moral treatise on the praises & dangers of some secular states & the obligations they entail, with exhortations for each state in question]‎^[2], Coimbra, Portugal: Francisco Correia, published 4 September 1549, page 107:

     [...] se os Reis, & principes juntamente com ho poder que tem na terra ho tiuessem de fazer officiais dos officios que dam dotando os homens das partes necessarias pera eles. Em tal caso, recusalos seria culpa, & erro digno de reprehẽsam [...]

     [...] if kings and princes, together with the power they have on earth, were to make officers from the offices they give by endowing men with the parts necessary for them, in this case, refusing them would be a fault and error worthy of reprimand [...]

   • 1600, Pedro Craesbeeck, Relação das exeqvias d'el Rey Dom Filippe nosso senhor, primeiro deste nome dos Reys de Portugal. [Relation of the funeral ceremonies of King Philip, our lord, first of this name of the Kings of Portugal.]‎^[3], Lisbon, page 9:

     Mas forão crecendo os rebates do mal da peste, (de que Deos nos liure) que começou no mesmo tempo, & entrou com grande furia pelo mes de Nouembro, & crecendo em Dezembro foy forçado cessar a obra por se euitar o ajuntamento de muitos officiais, que andauão nella [...]

     But the effects of the plague (which God forbid) were growing. It began at the same time, entered with great fury in November, and, growing in December, forced the work to be ceased to avoid the gathering of many officers who were working on it [...]

officiais

1. (obsolete) plural of official

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the plural form of words in ⟨-al⟩ was consistently marked with ⟨-aes⟩. See officiaes.