emboora

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • em boora

Etymology

Univerbation of en boa ora.

Adverb

emboora

  1. away
    • 1453, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, chapter XXVII, in Cronica dos feitos notavees que se passarom na conquista de Guinee; republished as Torquato de Souza Soares, editor, volume I, Lisbon: Academia Portuguesa de História, 1978, page 117:
      Os outros todauya aperfiarõ com elle que nõ quisesse fazer ally mayor deteẽça pois seu perigoo era tam conhecido que seguisse emboora sua vyajẽ
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • a. 1466, anonymous translator, Suetonyo de vida de Julio Cesar, translation of Faits des Romains; republished as chapter 18, in Maria Helena Mira Mateus, editor, Vida e feitos de Júlio César, volume 2, Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1970, line 35:
      […] mandou a Cotus que se fosse emboora […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • Galician: embora
  • Portuguese: embora

References

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