soamente
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese soamente, from Early Medieval Latin sōlā mente. Synchronically derivable from soa + -mente.
Adverb[edit]
soamente
- uniquely
- only, solely
- 1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:
- […] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.
- […] employees don't allow him to humiliate them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. Solely Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.