adeus
- plural ofadeu
FromMedieval Latinad Deum(“to God”). CompareAragoneseadiós,Asturianadiós,Catalanadeu,Dutchaju,Englishadieu,Extremaduranadiós,Frenchadieu,Germantschüss,Greekαντίο(antío),Italianaddio,Malteseaddiju,Mirandeseadius,Occitanadieu,Portugueseadeus,Romanianadio,Serbo-Croatianади̏о/adȉo,Sloveneadȋjo,Spanishadiós.
adeus m (pluraladeuses)
- agoodbye
adeus
- goodbye
- c1950, folk song recorded byAlan Lomax:
Agoraadeus,adeus
Sabés que me vou
Non chorés agora
que inda aquí che estou- Nowgoodbye,goodbye,
you know I'm going;
Don't you cry just now
cause I'm still here.
- Synonyms:abur,aburiño,chao,chau,deica
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “adeus”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adeus”, inDicionario 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), “adeus”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adeus”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
Borrowed fromMedieval Latinad Deum(“to God”). CompareAragonese,Asturian,Extremaduran, andSpanishadiós,Catalanadeu,Dutchajuus,English,French, andOccitanadieu,Germantschüss,Greekαντίο(antío),Galicianadeus,Italianaddio,Malteseaddiju,Mirandeseadius,Romanianadio,Serbo-Croatianади̏о/adȉo,Sloveneadȋjo.
adeus
- goodbye (farewell)
- Synonyms:tchau,até mais,falou,(Mozambique)ambanine
While in Portugal,adeus is used to simply say goodbye, in Brazil it is usually used for long or permanent departures.
