lentigoso

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • lentegoso

Etymology

From Latin *lenticulosus, from lenticula (“lentil, freckle”) and -osus (“-ous”).

Adjective

lentigoso

  1. (Old Galician) freckled
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 272:
      Et auj́a o rrostro lentigoso et grosso jaquanto, et auj́a os cabelos da cabeça et da barua uermellos
      His face was freckled and somewhat large, and the hairs of both his head and his beard were red

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