esponsa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • sponssa, sponia, sponja

Etymology

  • Semi-learned borrowing from Latin spongia, borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos) + -ιά (-iá). Doublet of espunlha.

    Noun

    esponsa f (plural *esponsas)

    1. sponge
      • 1420, chapter III, in Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 4:
        […] et estancado o sange pom ençima do figo esponsa do mar et apretaa ben con huun pano de lino et legao ben et non lle tollas esta sponssa do mar ataa que seia o figo todo comesto et rraudo da huña […]
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    Descendants

    • Fala: esponja
    • Galician: esponxa
    • Portuguese: esponja (see there for further descendants)

    References

    • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “spons+a”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
    • Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “esponja”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
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