esquerdo
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since the 13th century. Either from Basque ezker (“left”), or both from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Compare Spanish izquierdo and Catalan esquerra.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
esquerdo (feminine esquerda, masculine plural esquerdos, feminine plural esquerdas)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esquerdo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “esquerdo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “esquerdo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “esquerdo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Either from Basque ezker (“left”), or both from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Compare Spanish izquierdo and Catalan esquerra.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: es‧quer‧do
Adjective edit
esquerdo (feminine esquerda, masculine plural esquerdos, feminine plural esquerdas, comparable, comparative mais esquerdo, superlative o mais esquerdo or esquerdíssimo)
- left; left-hand; on or towards the left side
- (politics, rare) Synonym of esquerdista
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
esquerdo
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