pedreiro

Galician

Pedreiro or canteiro

Etymology

From pedra (stone) + -eiro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈðɾejɾo̝/

Noun

pedreiro m (plural pedreiros, feminine pedreira, feminine plural pedreiras)

  1. stonemason
    • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 207:
      mando que non possan tomar as ditas pesoas et coengos et homes boos da dita iglesia por panigoados os ofiçiales conuen a saber os carpenteiros et pedreiros et carniçeyros et ferreyros et çapateyros et peliteyros et mercadores
      I command that no churchman could take for a stooge any official, i.e., the carpenters and stonemasons and butchers and smiths and shoemakers and furriers and merchants
    Synonym: canteiro
  2. landmark

References

  • pedreiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • pedreiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • pedreiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • pedreiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • pedreiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pedreiro, from pedra (rock) + -eiro (-eer), or less likely from a Vulgar Latin *petrārius, from Latin petra (rock), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, stone, rock). Compare Spanish pedrero, Asturian pedreru, Catalan pedrer, Occitan peirièr, Romanian pietrar.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pe.ˈdɾe(j).ɾu/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /pe.ˈdɾe(j).ɾo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨ.ˈðɾɐj.ɾu/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧drei‧ro

Noun

pedreiro m (plural pedreiros, feminine pedreira, feminine plural pedreiras)

  1. mason; builder; bricklayer

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • pedreirinho
  • pedreiro-das-barreiras
  • pedreiro-livre
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