Pereira

See also: pereira

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Pereira.

Proper noun

Pereira

  1. A surname.

Derived terms

Galician

Etymology

At face value, from pereira (“pear tree”). Alternatively, from Medieval Latin petraria, from petra (“stone”) + -aria.[1] For the evolution compare Pérez, a patronymical surname derived from Petrus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /peˈɾejɾa̝/

Proper noun

Pereira f

  1. A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia.
  2. a toponymical surname

References
  • "Pereira" in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • "Pereira" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
  1. Pérez Capelo, Carolina (2017) “O sufixo diminutivo -ŎLA na toponimia galega / Diminutive suffix -ŎLA in Galician place names”, in Guavira Letras‎, number 25, retrieved 9 May 2018, page 132.

Portuguese

Etymology

From pereira (“pear tree”), or from a variant of pedreira (cf. Pero and Pedro). Compare Spanish Perera and Catalan Perer.

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

  • Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ
  • Homophone: pereira
  • Hyphenation: Pe‧rei‧ra

Proper noun

Pereira m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Spanish

Etymology

Named after Francisco Pereira Martínez.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /peˈɾeiɾa/ [peˈɾei̯.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eiɾa
  • Syllabification: Pe‧rei‧ra

Proper noun

Pereira

  1. the capital city of Antioquia department, Colombia
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