feitizo

• feitiço (reintegrationist)

Attested since circa 1350 (feytizeo). From Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Cognate with Portuguese feitiço, Asturian fechizu and Spanish hechizo.

• Hyphenation: fei‧ti‧zo

feitizo m (plural feitizos)

1. (folklore) spell, enchantment, charm
   • c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 16:

     este rrey avia hũa filla a que chamauã Medea et esta Jnfanta Medea foy moy sabea en arte magica et de todos los encantamẽtos, et de feytizeos de ervas et de outras cousas

     this king had a daughter named Medea, and this princess Medea was very knowledgeable in the art of magic and in every enchantment, and in charms of herbs and of other things

   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun escolar gallego:

     Meigas, feitizos e bruxas
     que persigue a Inquisicion,
     sin mascara, socaliñas
     de cregos e frades son.
     Chamanlles bruxas à ás vellas
     por ter cara de carton;
     pero solamente hay meygas
     en donde hay Inquisicion.
     As femias da nosa especie
     de certa constitucion
     fan visaxes, e son tolas,
     pero feitizeiras non.

     Witches, spells and hexes,
     who are prosecuted by the Inquisition,
     maskless, hoaxes
     of priests and friars are.
     They call hex an old lady
     because her face is made of cardboard;
     but there are witches
     just where it is Inquisition.
     Females of our species,
     of certain constitution,
     make gestures, and are mad,
     but sorceresses they are not.

   • 1863, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:

     Ora en ti penso disperto,
     ora en ti penso durmindo,
     e sempre en ti estou pensando
     coma si foses feitiço

     Now I think about you awake,
     now I think about yow while asleep,
     I'm always thinking about you
     as if you were a spell

   Synonym: meigallo

2. (figuratively) charm
   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun escolar gallego:

     O feitizo está nos ollos
     dua nena de Padron:
     as nenas tamen feitizan
     à os cregos da inquisicion.
     Garridiñas, nos chegedes
     a os que manexan tizós,
     que a estopa cabe do fogo
     e vos ua tentacion.

     the charm is in the eyes
     of a girl form Padrón:
     the girls also charm
     the priests of the Inquisition.
     Beautiful ladies, don't come near
     the ones who handle the brand,
     because the tow by the fire
     it's too much of a temptation.

• enfeitizar
• feiticeiro

• “feytizeo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “feytiz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “feitizo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “feitizo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.