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pexa
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See also: Pexa
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From an older *peja, from Vulgar Latin *pedea, from Latin pedem (“foot”). Cognate with Portuguese peia.
Pronunciation
Noun
pexa f (plural pexas)
- hobble; fetter (an object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs)
- (figurative) impediment, fetter (anything that restricts or restrains)
Derived terms
References
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pexa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pexa”, 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), “pexa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pexa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Verb
pexa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative pexaði, supine pexað)
Conjugation
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Related terms
- pex
- pexinn
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Latin
Participle
pexa
- inflection of pexus:
Participle
pexā
References
- "pexa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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