semellanza

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese semellança, equivalent to semellar +‎ -anza. Compare Portuguese semelhança, Spanish semejanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [semeˈʎanθɐ]

Noun

semellanza f (plural semellanzas)

1. similarity, likeness

   Synonym: similitude

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 47:

     Quando aquel Ihesus, meu señor, ya por la terras preegar, eu avia de moy grãde amor et soydade de veer a sua façe et quigi mãdar pintar a semelança do seu rrostro, que era a mays fremosa criatura do mũdo, en hũu pano por fillar cõ ela prazer et cõforto quando o vise; et querendoo fazer cõteyllo todo, et el pediome o pano et posoo ẽna sua cara et doumo encayado cõ tal figura cal era o seu santo rrostro;

     When that Jesus, my Lord, was going about the lands preaching, I had, because of how big was my love, longing for seeing His face; and I wanted to order a paint in the likeness of His face, which was the most beautiful creation in the world, in a cloth, for having joy and confort whenever I saw it; and wanting to do it I told him, and He asked me for the cloth, put it on His face and gave it back to me stuck with a figure that was no other than His holy face;

Related terms

• semellante
• semellar

Further reading

• “semellança” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “semellança” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “semellanza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “semellanza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “semellanza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.