maseira

Galician

Alternative forms
  • maxeira, meseira

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese masseyra: synchronically masa (“dough”) +‎ -eira.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /maˈsejɾa̝/

Noun

maseira f (plural maseiras)

  1. trough
    Synonyms: artesa, baño
    • 1414, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 105:
      Iten, mando mays aa dita iglesia de Sant Pedro a miña caldeira e as gramalleiras e mesas e maseiras que teño eno forno de Millmanda
      Item, I also bequeath to that church of Saint Peter my cauldron and the trammel and the tables and the troughs I have in the bakery of Milmanda
  2. kneading trough
    Synonym: artesa
  3. manger
    Synonyms: bacía, baño, barquela

References
  • “masseyra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “maseira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “maseira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “maseira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “maseira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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