xacer

From Old Galician-Portuguese jazer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin iacere. Cognate with Portuguese jazer and Spanish yacer.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaˈθeɾ/

xacer (first-person singular present xazo, first-person singular preterite xacín, past participle xacido)

1. to lie
2. to recline

• xacente

xacer m (plural xaceres)

1. rest
   • 1813, Xan de Mingucho, (a letter):

     estou de mal xacer, porque nesta noite pasada unhas malas almas me esfolaron seis carballos que tiña moi estimados, como o están facendo a outros moitos, solo por vender a casca ós coireiros das frábecas

     I'm badly rested (lit. I'm in bad rest), because this last night some bad souls stripped six oaks which I had in great esteem, as they are doing to many others, just for selling the bark to the furriers of the factories

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “jazer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jaz”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xacer”, 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), “xacer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xacente”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN