"Anfrenta"

Question

My textbook says, "el Cid venga la virtud de sus hijas en la anfrenta de Corpes, donde pide remuneración y justicia por el deshonor cometido por los infantas en contra de ellas."

I can't find any definition of "anfrenta", and I'm wondering... Is this a typo of "afrenta" or "enfrenta"?

Answer 1

I found the text online...it's a typo of "afrenta," which means to "affront."

afrenta

(De afruenta).

1. f. Vergüenza y deshonor que resulta de algún dicho o hecho, como la que se sigue de la imposición de penas por ciertos delitos.

2. f. Dicho o hecho afrentoso.

3. f. Peligro, apuro, trance.

4. f. desus. Requerimiento, intimación.

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Answer 2

Afrenta: affront.

Good catch gekkosan ! - pacofinkler, Sep 29, 2011

Answer 3

It's got to be a typo because the word is not in the official R A E dictionary.

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La palabra anfrenta no está en el Diccionario.

Any guesses as to what it's supposed to be? - Soninmyeyes, Sep 29, 2011

could it be enfrentar? - Yeser007, Sep 29, 2011

Yeah, enfrenta is my best guess so far. - Soninmyeyes, Sep 29, 2011

I would go with that - pacofinkler, Sep 29, 2011

Answer 4

The poem was written in the late 11th or early 12th century (some 200-300 years before Chaucer's Canterbury Tales). It is not what what one would call "modern" Spanish.