infinto

Galician

Alternative forms

• enfinto

Etymology

From Latin infinitus (“boundless”) or definitus (“limited, terminated”).

Noun

infinto m (plural infintos)

1. (archaic) register or relation, especially of taxes or contributions due by each neighbour of a given place
   • 1420, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 230:

     enton os sobreditos diseron que davan e deron poder cunplido aos ditos Martin Serpe e Afonso Fernandes, para que podesen veer os infintos e encanamas e copia deles porque se agora recabdava a renda enna dita çidade e soubesen quantos maravedis faleçian dos triinta mill maravedis da dita encanama

     then the aforementioned said that they would give and gave a power of attorney to the mentioned Martín Xerpe and Afonso Fernández, so that they could see the registers and contributions and copy of them by which rent are collected in the mentioned city, so that they could know how many maravedis were missing of the thirty thousand of that contribution

   Synonym: cánaba

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nfinto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “infintos”, 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), “infinto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Participle

infinto (feminine infinta, masculine plural infinti, feminine plural infinte)

1. past participle of infingere

Anagrams

• fintino