doente

From Old Portuguese doente, from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).

• IPA^(key): /doˈente̝/, /doˈɛnte̝/, /ˈdo̯ente̝/

doente m or f (plural doentes)

1. sick (in poor health)
   • 1292, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.) A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 47:

     eu Pedro Peláez de Vilar, jazendo doente no corpo e sao na memoria [...]

     I, Pedro Peláez de Vilar, lying sick of my body but sound in my memory [...]

2. aching
3. rabid (e.g. a dog)
4. mad, furious

• (in poor health): enfermo

• san

doente m or f (plural doentes)

1. a sick person
   • 1327, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 79:

     e proueam á dita albergaría de leytos e de feltros et mantas e de cubertas e manteñan y hun ome e hua moller que aguarde a roupa e faça os leytos aos doentes e os caldos quando lles conpryr

     and they should provide that hospital with beds and felts and blankets and covers, and they should keep there a man and a woman who should guard the clothes and make the beds of the sick and the hot soup when they would need it

• (sick person): enfermo, paciente

• adoecer
• doenza
• doer
• dor

• “doente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “doente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “doente” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “doente” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese doente, from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”). Compare Spanish doliente, Italian dolente. Doublet of dolente, a borrowing.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdwẽ.tɨ/

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• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /do.ˈẽ.te/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /du.ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/

doente m or f (plural doentes, comparable)

1. sick (in poor health)
2. (informal) mad, crazy

• (in poor health): enfermo, fraco, mal debilitado, enfermiço, débil

• saudável, sadio

doente m, f (plural doentes)

1. a sick person
2. (informal) a crazy or mad person

• (sick person): enfermo, paciente

• Kabuverdianu: duenti