obrigación

Galician

Alternative forms

  • obrigazón (non-standard spelling)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese obrigaçon, attested independently in both corpora. From Latin obligatio, obligationem, probably a semi-learned borrowing. Compare Portuguese obrigação.

Noun

obrigación f (plural obrigacións)

  1. duty
  2. obligation
    • 1310, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 88:
      Itẽ uos dou a obligaçõ que teño ſobre Johã Aras τ ſobre ſua muller Maria Peres, miña yrmáá, de quinẽtos ſoldos que me deuẽ
      Item, I give you the obligation I have of Xohán Aras and his wife María Pérez, my sister, of five hundred solidi he owes me
    Synonym: obriga

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