adoecer

• adorecer

From Old Galician-Portuguese adoecer (“to sicken”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin *addolēscō, from dolēscō. Compare Portuguese adoecer and Spanish adolecer.

• IPA^(key): [aðoeˈθeɾ], (western) [aðoeˈseɾ]

adoecer (first-person singular present adoezo, first-person singular preterite adoecín, past participle adoecido)
adoecer (first-person singular present adoeço, first-person singular preterite adoecim or adoeci, past participle adoecido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (archaic) to sicken

   Synonym: enfermar

2. (intransitive) to ache, suffer pain

   Synonyms: doer, rabiar

3. (intransitive, of animals) to suffer rabies

   Synonym: rabiar

   Nunca can me roeu qu'él non adoecese. (idiom, meaning "I'm more dangerous that him/her")

   Never did a dog bite me which later didn't get sick.

4. (intransitive, figurative) to anger

   Synonym: rabiar

5. (intransitive, figurative) to despair

   Synonym: desesperar

6. (intransitive, figurative) to covet

   Synonyms: devecer, gorar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “adoecer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adoe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adoecer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “adoecer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adoecer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese adoecer, from Latin *addolēscere, from dolēscō. Compare Galician adoecer and Spanish adolecer.

• Hyphenation: a‧do‧e‧cer

adoecer (first-person singular present adoeço, first-person singular preterite adoeci, past participle adoecido)

1. (intransitive) to sicken, to fall ill

• doença
• doente

• “adoecer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “adoecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024