alquimia
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese alquimia, from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (alkímya) and Medieval Latin alchemia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʾ), from Ancient Greek χημεία (khēmeía) or χυμεία (khumeía), originally “a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants” and later “alchemy”, from perhaps both Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”) and χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”).
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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (alkímya) and Medieval Latin alchemia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʾ), from Ancient Greek χημεία (khēmeía) or χυμεία (khumeía), originally “a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants” and later “alchemy”, from perhaps both Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”) and χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [al.kiˈmi.a], [alˈki.mja]
Noun
alquimia f (usually uncountable)
- alchemy
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 21v.
- Et por ende los que ſe trabaian de alquimia aque llaman la obra mayor, deuen parar miétes que non dannen el nombre del ſaber. ca alquimia tanto quiere dezir, como maeſtria pora meiorar las coſas ca non empeorar las.
- And therefore those who work with alchemy, which they call the greatest work, must stop before they tarnish the name of knowledge; for alchemy means both mastery to make things better as well as to make them worse.
- Et por ende los que ſe trabaian de alquimia aque llaman la obra mayor, deuen parar miétes que non dannen el nombre del ſaber. ca alquimia tanto quiere dezir, como maeſtria pora meiorar las coſas ca non empeorar las.
- Idem, f. 34v.
- Mas por que eſto perteneſce ala obra dalquimia, no quiſiemos meter lo aqui en eſte libro.
- But because this pertains to the works of alchemy, we did not wish to include it here in this book.
- Mas por que eſto perteneſce ala obra dalquimia, no quiſiemos meter lo aqui en eſte libro.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 21v.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese alquimia, from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (alkímya) and Medieval Latin alchemia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʾ), from Ancient Greek χημεία (khēmeía) or χυμεία (khumeía), originally “a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants” and later “alchemy”, from perhaps both Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”) and χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”).
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish alquimia, from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (alkímya) and Medieval Latin alchemia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʾ), from Ancient Greek χημεία (khēmeía) or χυμεία (khumeía), originally “a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants” and later “alchemy”, from perhaps both Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”) and χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈkimja/
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Further reading
- “alquimia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.