xantar

Asturian

Verb

xantar (first-person singular indicative present xanto, past participle xantáu)

  1. Alternative form of xintar

Conjugation


Galician

Silvio Fernandez's O Xantar ("the lunch"), 1890
Casa de Xantar (~ "house of eating" / "restaurant")

Alternative forms

  • xentar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese jantar, from Latin ientāre, present active infinitive of ientō. Cognate with Portuguese jantar, Asturian xintar and Spanish yantar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃanˈtaɾ/

Noun

xantar m (plural xantares)

  1. dinner (midday main meal)
  2. lunch
  3. (historical) a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative
    • 1287, E. Duro Peña (ed.), "El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives", Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:
      dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas
      you'll give this monastery's abbess a "dinner" each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this "dinner" a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

Verb

xantar (first-person singular present xanto, first-person singular preterite xantei, past participle xantado)

  1. to dinner (midday main meal)
  2. to lunch
  3. to eat
    Synonym: comer

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • casa de xantar

References

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