menciña

Galician

Alternative forms
  • manciña, meciña, meiciña, melecía

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese meezỹa, meezinna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin medicina (“drug”). Cognate with Portuguese mezinha. Doublet of medicina.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /menˈθiɲa̝/

Noun

menciña f (plural menciñas)

  1. home remedy; medicine; drug
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 81:
      Et eu te ensinarey meezinas conuiniuijs para esta door que chaman uerme en esta maneira
      And I'll teach you the appropriate drugs for this pain that they call worm, in this manner
  2. (archaic) poisson

Derived terms

References
  • “meezinna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “meez” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “menciña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “menciña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “menciña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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