enfermaría
See also: enfermaria
Galician
Alternative forms
- enfermería
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese enfermaria (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): from enfermo (“sick”) + -aría, Medieval Latin infirmaria (“hospital”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [eɱfeɾmaˈɾiɐ]
Noun
enfermaría f (plural enfermarías)
- (dated) infirmary, sickhouse, hospital
- 1395, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 157:
- It. mando ao moesteyro de san francisco hua cama de Roupa [...] que seja ena enfermaria para os frayres doentes
- Item, I bequeath to this monastery of Saint Francis a bed of clothes [list of items] that must be in the infirmary for the use of ill friars
- It. mando ao moesteyro de san francisco hua cama de Roupa [...] que seja ena enfermaria para os frayres doentes
- 1395, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 157:
- infirmary (clinic or dispensary within another institution)
- nursing (profession of caring for patients as a nurse)
Related terms
- enfermo
Verb
enfermaría
- first-person singular conditional indicative of enfermar
- third-person singular conditional indicative of enfermar
References
- “enfermaria” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “enfermaria” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “enfermaría” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Spanish
Verb
enfermaría
- first/third-person singular conditional of enfermar