monteira

Galician
Musicians wearing traditional monteiras
Old man wearing a monteira

Etymology

From monte (“hill, woodland, wild”) +‎ -eira. Cognate with Spanish montera.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /monˈtejɾa̝/

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

  1. traditional Galician cap or hat wore by men, and whose design usually revealed the geographic origin of the user

See also

References
  • “monteira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “monteira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “monteira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “monteira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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