enchente
Galician
Alternative forms
- enchenta
Etymology
encher (“to fill”) + -ente, from Old Portuguese encher, from Latin impleō (“to fill up”).
Noun
enchente f (plural enchentes)
- flood (overflow of water)
- rising tyde; high tyde
- feast, large meal and the sensation of filling caused by it
- 1840, Manuel Fernandez Magariños, Foliada que fixo o labrador Seor Pedro:
- De cando en cando seu tío espricaballe contento a boa vida dos Curas e dos Frades e dos Cregos, as enchentes que papaban
- From time to time his uncle told him merrily about the good life the parsons, monks and priests lived, the feasts they munched
- De cando en cando seu tío espricaballe contento a boa vida dos Curas e dos Frades e dos Cregos, as enchentes que papaban
- 1840, Manuel Fernandez Magariños, Foliada que fixo o labrador Seor Pedro:
- (figuratively) large quantity of something
Synonyms
References
- “enchente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “enchente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “enchente” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “enchente” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
encher (“to fill”) + -ente, from Old Portuguese encher, from Latin implēre, present active infinitive of impleō (“I fill up”).
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ẽ.ˈʃẽ.te/
Derived terms
- enchente-relâmpago
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