liteira

Galician

Etymology

In the sense given below, seemingly borrowed from Catalan llitera or French litière, both from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding”). Compare the synonymous Spanish litera, also borrowed from Gallo-Romance.

There also existed, however, a liteira (“bedding”) in thirteenth-century Old Galician-Portuguese, which might represent a direct inheritance of the Late Latin lectuāria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [liˈtejɾɐ]

Noun

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter (platform mounted on two shafts, used for the human-powered transportation of people)
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     E se eu fora sua Ama,
     que de regalos comera
     e mais avia d'andar
     metida nunha Liteyra.

     If I was her milkmaid
     so many delicatessens I would eat
     and I would go around
     inside a litter

Related terms

• leito

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “liteyra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “liteira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “liteira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

See Galician liteira above.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [liˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [liˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈte(j).ɾa/ [liˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈte.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: li‧tei‧ra

Noun

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter (platform mounted on two shafts, used for the human-powered transportation of people)

Related terms

• leito