xoves

Galician

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɔbes/ [ˈʃɔ.β̞es̺]
  • Rhymes: -ɔbes
  • Hyphenation: xo‧ves

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese joves (not found in documents from Portugal), from Latin Iovis dīēs, variant of dīēs Iovis.

Noun

xoves m (invariable)

  1. Thursday
    Synonym: quinta feira
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 94:
      Os outros dias da semana teuerom et téém et am os antigóós [nomes] quelles os [gentijs] poserõ das planetas: o lues da lũa, o martes de Mars, o mercoles de Mercurio, o joues de Jupyter, o vernes de Venus
      the other days of the week had and have the old names which the pagans gave to them, from the planets: Monday of the Moon, Tuesday of Mars, Wednesday of Mercury, Thursday of Jupiter, Friday of Venus
See also

Etymology 2

Adjective

xoves m pl or f pl

  1. plural of xove

References

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