lediça

See also: Lediça

Old Galician-Portuguese

FWOTD – 19 February 2013

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin laetitia (“great joy; pleasure”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /leˈdit͡sa/

Noun

lediça f

Great joy; pleasure.
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 14 (facsimile):
  
  E tan toſte que foi morto o Dem a Alma fillou dele. ⁊ con gran lediça logo a leuar Cuidou.
  And as he was quickly killed the Devil seized his Soul. And with great pleasure he soon took it.

Synonyms

prazer

Descendants

Galician: ledicia
Portuguese: ledice, lediça

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /leˈd͡ʒi.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨˈdi.sɐ/ [lɨˈði.sɐ]

Noun

lediça f (plural lediças)

Alternative form of ledice

Derived terms

Lediça

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