mágoa

Attested since early 15th century. Semi-learned borrowing from Latin macula (“blemish, stain”).[1] Doublet of malla. Compare Spanish magullar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɣʊ̯ɐ]

mágoa f (plural mágoas)

1. minor injury, wound, excoriation

   Synonyms: mancadela, mancadura

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 57:

     garda soude no corpo et nos nenbros do potro Naturalmente et espiçialmente as coixas som llimpas de magooas

     keep the health of the body and the limbs of the foal naturally, specially that the thighs are clean of galls

2. stain, blemish

   Synonym: mancha

3. shame

   Synonym: vergoña/vergonza

   Que mágoa que non veñas! ― It's a shame that you won't come!

4. grief, sorrow

   Synonyms: pena, coita

• “magooa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mágoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mágoa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mágoa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin macula (“stain, fault”), showing preservation of word-internal -u-, lost early in the inherited doublet malha and mancha. Compare the doublets mancha, malha, mangra, and mácula.

• Rhymes: -aɡwɐ
• Hyphenation: má‧go‧a

mágoa f (plural mágoas)

1. grief; sorrow
   • 1919, Florbela Espanca, “Este Livro...”, in Livro das Mágoas:

     Este livro é de mágoas. Desgraçados / Que no mundo passais, chorai ao lê-lo! / Somente a vossa dor de Torturados / Pode, talvez, senti-lo... e compreendê-lo.

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2. resentment

• magoar