cuitelo

Galician

Noun

cuitelo m (plural cuitelos)

1. Alternative form of coitelo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cuytelo, coitelo, coytelo

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cultellus.

Noun

cuitelo m

1. knife

   Synonym: faca

   • 1466, Xesús Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, page 194:

     Ano de LXVI, XI de junio, en Orense, Juan Telo, notario, vesino da dita çidade, se obligó de pagar a Afonso Lopes, canónigo, quando fose julgado, se morrese o seu mulo do dito Afonso Lopes, por quanto ------- fillo de Catalina Touciña, de Niñodáguia, lle corta o carallo con un coytelo podadoyro.

     year of 1466, June 11, in Ourense: Xoán Tello, notario, neighbour of said city, promised to pay to Afonso López, canon, whenever he was judged, in case the mule of said Afonso López happens to die, because -----, son of Catalina Touciña, from Niñodaguia, cut his penis with a pruning knife.

Descendants

• Galician: coitelo
• Portuguese: cutelo

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cuitelo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coitelo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kujˈtɛ.lu/ [kuɪ̯ˈtɛ.lu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kujˈtɛ.lu/ [kuɪ̯ˈtɛ.lu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kujˈtɛ.lo/ [kuɪ̯ˈtɛ.lo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kujˈtɛ.lu/

Noun

cuitelo m (plural cuitelos)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of cutelo