podre

From Old Galician-Portuguese podre (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin puter, putrem, from Proto-Indo-European *puH-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoðɾe̝/

podre m or f (plural podres)

1. in state of decay; rotten
   • 1418, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 148:

     seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre

     six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of dried ones and of rotten ones

2. overridden by bacteria and other infectious agents; rancid; rotten
3. (figurative, humorous) sick, having a cold

podre m (plural podres)

1. (figurative) arrogance

• “podre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “podre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “podre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “podre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “podre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese podre, from Latin putrem, from Proto-Indo-European *puH-.

• Hyphenation: po‧dre

podre m or f (plural podres, comparable, comparative mais podre, superlative o mais podre or podríssimo)

1. rotten (in a state of decay)
2. rotten, rancid (overridden by bacteria and other infectious agents)
3. (Brazil, informal) bad, horrible

   Que filme podre.

   What a bad movie.

podre m (plural podres)

1. (Brazil, informal) an embarrassing or compromising piece of information about someone or something; dirt

   Fiquei sabendo de podres dele.

   I learned some compromising information about him.

Inherited from Latin putrem. Compare Spanish pudrir (“to rot”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpodɾe/ [ˈpo.ð̞ɾe]
• Rhymes: -odɾe
• Syllabification: po‧dre

podre f (plural podres)

1. rot; rotting

• “podre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014