different between portuguese vs pousada

English

Etymology

From Portuguese pousada.

Noun

pousada (plural pousadas)

1. a Portuguese inn

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pousada, from pousar (“to rest”) + -ada, from Latin paus?re, from paus? (“I halt”). Cognate with Portuguese pousada and Spanish posada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pow?saða?/

Noun

pousada f (plural pousadas)

1. inn; lodging
   • 1408, José-Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 320:

     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

   Synonyms: albergue, hospedaxe

2. (archaic) dwelling, residence
   • 1385, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 246:

     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

3. (archaic) seat, sitting place
4. shelf, corbel
5. a group of four sheaves of wheat, rye, etc

Related terms

• pousa
• Pousada
• Pousadela
• pousar

References

• “pousada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pousada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pousada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pousada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pousada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• poisada

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pousada, from pousar (“to rest”) + -ada, from Latin paus?re, from paus? (“I halt”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /po(w).?za.da/, /po(w).?za.d?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /po(w).?za.ð?/
• Hyphenation: pou?sa?da

Noun

pousada f (plural pousadas)

1. inn (establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink)

   Synonyms: albergue, estalagem, hospedaria

2. stay (period of time spent in a place)

   Synonyms: estada, estadia, permanência

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: pousada

Verb

pousada

1. feminine singular past participle of pousar