corta feira

Galician

Alternative forms

• carta feira, corta, cuarta feira
• corta-feira (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quarta feira, from Ecclesiastical Latin quārta fēria (“Wednesday”, literally “fourth weekday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾta ˈfejɾɐ]

Noun

corta feira f (plural cortas feiras)

1. Wednesday
   • 1596, Pedro Obeso, Benito Valverde, Carta ao Conde de Gondomar:

     oxe corta feyra 2 de outubre de 96

     today, Wednesday, October 2nd of 1596

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Polo fio d'unha roca
     ó estagamo seme bay,
     é cortafeira coideiche
     que acababa de finar.

     By the thread of a distaff
     my stomach is going away,
     and Wednesday I though
     that I had just died.

   • 1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa:

     Ainda estuven aló cortafeira

     I went there on Wednesday

   • 1881, folk-song:

     Hoxe é luns, mañán é martes, / Carta feira logo vén, / De mañán en oito días / É a semana que vén

     today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, Wednesday swiftly comes; from tomorrow in eight days it is next week

   Synonym: mércores

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “quarta feira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “quarta feira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “cortafeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “corta feira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “corta feira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.