ouvir

  1. To hear, to listen.
  2. Frequently, in all the chronicles, Lopes uses words implying ‘to hear’ or ‘listeners’ when referring to how the public will react to his accounts. Apart from the occasional public reading that is known to have still been performed at Court in the fifteenth century, this is generally thought to be a literary device to place the chronicles in the old and noble tradition of historiography which, in medieval terms, was intended for oral communication. [TA]
  3. "os que ouvirem" - those who hear this, the audience. [Pedro, Prologue: 9]
  4. "como avees ouvido" - as you have heard. [Pedro, ch. 1: 1]
  5. "como adeante ouvirees" - as you will hear in due course. [Pedro, ch. 1: 59; ch. 2: 63]
Parts of Speech: 
verb

Chronicle entries in which ouvir appears:

Citation: 
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 0: 9
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 1: 1
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 1: 59
Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 2: 63
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