xoves

Galician

Alternative forms

• joves (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔbes/ [ˈʃɔ.β̞es̺]
• Rhymes: -ɔbes
• Hyphenation: xo‧ves

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese joves (not found in documents from Portugal), from Latin Iovis dīēs, variant of dīēs Iovis.

Noun

xoves m (invariable)

1. Thursday

   Synonym: quinta feira

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 94:

     Os outros dias da semana teuerom et téém et am os antigóós [nomes] quelles os [gentijs] poserõ das planetas: o lues da lũa, o martes de Mars, o mercoles de Mercurio, o joues de Jupyter, o vernes de Venus

     the other days of the week had and have the old names which the pagans gave to them, from the planets: Monday of the Moon, Tuesday of Mars, Wednesday of Mercury, Thursday of Jupiter, Friday of Venus

See also

• (days of the week) día da semana; luns, martes, mércores, xoves, venres, sábado, domingo ^{(Category: gl:Days of the week)}

Etymology 2

Adjective

xoves m pl or f pl

1. plural of xove

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “joues”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “joves” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xoves”, 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), “xoves”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xoves”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN