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requeixo

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From re- queixo (cheese).

Noun

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requeixo m (plural requeixos)

  1. cottage cheese
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Etymology 2

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From local Late Latin recasio, probably from re- *capseus, from capsa (box).[1]

Noun

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requeixo m (plural requeixos)

  1. cornered place
    • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 258:
      Et fogiu Caçim cõ esses berberis et meterõse en hũu requeixo da çidade
      And then Caçim fled with that Berbers and they went into a corner of the city
  2. corner, inside the kitchen, used for storing the firewood
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “quejar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos