xoves

Galician

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɔβe̝s/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician joves (not attested in Old Portuguese proper), from Latin Iovis dīēs, variant of dīēs Iovis.

Noun

xoves m (plural xoves)

  1. Thursday
    • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 94:
      Os outros dias da semana teuerom et téém et am os antigóós [nomes] quelles os [gentijs] poserõ das planetas: o lues da lũa, o martes de Mars, o mercoles de Mercurio, o joues de Jupyter, o vernes de Venus
      the other days of the week had and have the old names which the pagans gave to them, from the planets: Monday of the Moon, Tuesday of Mars, Wednesday of Mercury, Thursday of Jupiter, Friday of Venus
    Synonym: quinta feira
See also

Etymology 2

Adjective

xoves m pl or f pl

  1. plural of cervical

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