Where does “doente” come from?
doente (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese doente, from Latin dolēns, from Latin doleō, from Proto-Italic doleō, from Proto-Indo-European dolh₁éyeti, from Proto-Indo-European delh₁- — to split, divide.
doente (Galician): sick; aching; rabid
Ancestry of “doente”, step by step