genete

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَنَاتِيّ (zanātiyy).

Adjective

genete m or f (plural genetes)

1. (relational) Zenata
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Xeral Historia [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria: versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 200:

     Et deste Ysmael vierom outrosy os barbaros gazules, et genetes, et todas las maneyras de alaraues daqueles que moram [em] tẽdas et nõ querem morar em casas […]

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Noun

genete m (plural genetes)

1. African horseman

   Hypernym: cavaleiro

   • 13th century, Alfonso X of Castile, [cantiga 491]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 491:

     O genete poys rremete ſen / alfaraʒ coiredor eſtremete e eſmoreçe / o coyffe com pauorr

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Descendants

• Galician: xinete
• Portuguese: ginete

References

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “genete”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “genete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “genete”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega