mantenza

From Old Galician-Portuguese *mantẽença, from manter +‎ -enza. Compare dialectal Portuguese mantença and English maintenance.

• Hyphenation: man‧ten‧za

mantenza m (plural mantenzas)

1. sustenance, support
   • 1340, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 481:

     Outrosi amoestamos en Deus todolos fiees cristaos a que esta carta for mostrada que façan ben et aiuda et esmola ao dito lugar para a obra et para a manteença das ditas donas

     Also we admonish in God to all the Christian believers whom this charters is shown to, for them to do good and help and alms to said place, for the building and for the sustenance of said nuns

   Synonyms: pan e porco, sostemento, sustento

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “manteeça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “manteença”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mantenza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mantenza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mantenza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN