espádoa

13th century. Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin spatula (“broad, flat piece”), diminutive of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Cognate with Portuguese espádua.

• IPA^(key): /esˈpado̯a/

espádoa f (plural espádoas)

1. (anatomy) scapula; shoulder blade

   Synonym: omoplata

   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 262:

     Et assi acaeçeu que hũu dia, andando desarmado pela grã caentura que fazia, catando o muro do castelo per hu era mays fraco et per u se perderia mays agiña [...] que llj tirarõ hũa seeta, de que foy mal ferido ontre as espadoas.

     And so it happened that one day, as he walked unarmored because of the heat, watching the walls of the castle for finding where it were weaker and could be defeated sooner [...] they shot an arrow that mortally wounded him in between the scapules

2. (archaic) a type of tax or imposition

• espadoar

• espada
• espátula

• “espadoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “espadoa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “espadoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.