xantar

xantar (first-person singular indicative present xanto, past participle xantáu)

1. (Western Asturian) alternative form of xintar

• jantar (reintegrationist)
• xentar

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, from Latin ientāre. Cognate with Portuguese jantar, Asturian xintar and Spanish yantar.

• IPA^(key): /ʃanˈtaɾ/ [ʃan̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

xantar m (plural xantares)

1. dinner (midday main meal)

   O que ben almorza escusa o xantar (proverb) ― He who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.

2. lunch
   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta

     I'm running for the loaf, if I find lunch to eat, because yet this afternoon I ought to spread a large pile of dung

3. (historical) a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative

xantar (first-person singular present xanto, first-person singular preterite xantei, past participle xantado)

1. to dinner (afternoon main meal)
   • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

     Polas tres da tarde
     Xantei à desexo
     C’o à miña muller,
     Aurora, è a nena
     Que a tiña a nai
     Garimada ao peito

     Around three in the afternoon
     I dinnered to my liking
     with my wife,
     Aurora, and the girl
     that the mother had
     close to her bosom

2. to lunch
3. to eat

   Synonym: comer

• casa de xantar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xantar”, 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), “xantar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xantar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN