Noun: pousada
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pousada |
| Plural f | pousadas |
Sample Sentences
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E quando e cada que y chegar o prior et freyres do dicto moesterio darlles pousada e cama e sal e fogo e agoa (And when and every time the prior and friars of the aforementioned Abby go there, you will give them lodging and bed and salt and fire and water) [1408, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 320:]
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Outrosí, fazedes prender os notarios e tomarlles e roubarlles quanto teen nas pousadas e tomarlles as escrituras e priualos dos ofiçios. (Ana also, you make them imprison the notaries, and to take and rob everything that they have in their residences and to take their charters and to deprive them of their offices) [1385, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 246:]
Nouns inflected like pousada
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pousada, from pousar (“to rest”) + -ada, from Latin pausāre, from pausō (“to halt”). Cognate with Portuguese pousada and Spanish posada. See: Latin Nouns '
pausāre', Portuguese Nouns '
pousada', Spanish Nouns '
posada'.
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