Etymology
Ultimately from Latin abundus (“copious, abundant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abondo/ [a.β̞õn̪.d̪o]
- Rhymes: -ondo
- Hyphenation: a‧bon‧do
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈbondo/ [aˈβ̞on̪.d̪ʊ]
- Rhymes: -ondo
- Hyphenation: a‧bon‧do
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese avondo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin abundus, an adjective likely based on Latin abundē (“abundantly”).
Determiner
abondo m (feminine abonda, masculine plural abondos, feminine plural abondas)
- a sufficient or more than sufficient quantity
Tes anos abondos para saberes o que tes que facer- You have enough years to know what you must do [about that]
1434, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 106:os ditos señores feseron pregunta aos ditos Martín Peres e Aluaro, carniçeiros, se se querían obrigar de dar carne abondo á dita çidade con os outros carniçeiros, en tal maneira que o dito señor obispo e cabídoo e conçello e vesinos da dita çidade ouuese abondo de carne de boys e de vacas e carneiros e cabirtos e rojeelos- the aforementioned gentlemen asked the aforementioned Martin Perez and Álvaro, butchers, if they wanted to bind themselves to give enough meat to this city, with the others butchers, so as the bishop, and the Chapter, and the Council, and the neighbors of this city would have enough meat of oxen, and of cows, of rams, of goat kids, of lambs
Adverb
abondo
- enough; sufficiently
1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 47:Et ẽnos xxij ãnos mandou Mahomat, rrey de Cordoua, fazer naues y en sua cidade et en Siuilla et ẽnos outros lugares du soube que auja avondo de madeyra que para aquillo fosse mester; ca oyra dizer que auja en Galiza cidades et castellos et villas muy bõas que nõ aujã enparança de castell[o] nẽ de çerca nẽ doutra fortelleza nẽhũa- And in the year 22 Mahomat, king of Cordoba, ordered to build ships in his city of Seville and in the other places where he knew that there were wood enough for what should be needed; because he had heard that in Galicia there were many excellent cities and castles and towns that had no castle, nor walls, nor any other fortress to defend them
- plenty
c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:Fillo, Deus te de do oruallo do çeo et da grosura da terra aabondo de tríj́go- My Son, God gives you, of the wetness of the sky and of the richness of the earth, plenty of wheat
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “avondo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “auondo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “abondo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abondo”, 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), “abondo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abondo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN