pitanza

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pitança, from Old French pitance or from Medieval Latin pietantia, from Latin pietas (“pity”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /piˈtanθa/ [piˈt̪an̪.θɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /piˈtanθa/ [piˈt̪an̪.θɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /piˈtansa/ [piˈt̪an.sɐ]

 

• Rhymes: -anθa

• Rhymes: -anθa
• Rhymes: -ansa

Noun

pitanza f (plural pitanzas)

1. pittance (a small allowance of food and drink)
   • 1258, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 70:

     mãdo mia carne a Sancta Maria de Ferreyra τ mãdo y conmigo un leyto τ j.a cozedra τ un feltro τ j a colcha τ ij. fazeyróóſ τ ij lenzóóſ τ La ſoldoſ para pitãza

     I bequeath my body to Santa María de Ferreira, and I bequeath there with me a bed and a mattress and a felt and a quilt and two pillows and two sheets and fifty solidi for pittance [for the poor and attendees to the burial]

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pitança”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pitan”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pitanza”, 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), “pitanza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pitanza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pitance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /piˈtanθa/ [piˈt̪ãn̟.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /piˈtansa/ [piˈt̪ãn.sa]
• Rhymes: -anθa
• Rhymes: -ansa
• Syllabification: pi‧tan‧za

Noun

pitanza f (plural pitanzas)

1. daily bread

   Synonym: pan de cada día

2. ration (of food)

   Synonym: ración

Further reading

• “pitanza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10