gorentar

Galician

Etymology

From goro (infertile egg) + -entar; goro from Proto-Celtic *gʷero- (warm up, heat).[1] Once meaning, probably, 'to warm / cook the food'.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡoɾenˈtaɾ/, /ɡoɾɛnˈtaɾ/

Verb

gorentar (first-person singular present gorento, first-person singular preterite gorentei, past participle gorentado)

  1. (intransitive) to have a delicious taste; to be delectable
    • 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros, in Ramón Mariño Paz (ed.), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846:
      ¡pro o viño eravos testo! tiñavos tan bo olido que resucitaba os mortos, e un sabor que gorentaba
      But the wine it was great, pals! It had such a scent that it raised the dead, and a delicious taste
  2. (transitive) to relish

Conjugation

References

  • gorentar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • gorentar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
  2. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. guero.
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