seara

See also: Seara, searã, and seară

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

See senra

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seˈaɾa̝/

Noun

seara f (plural searas)

  1. communal terrain, usually left fallow, undivided and covered by bushes, which is eventually grazed and plowed for the temporal production of rye or wheat; swidden
    Synonyms: cavada, estivada, roza
  2. cornfield
  3. (dated) day labor
    • 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:
      Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar
      You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

Derived terms

References

  • seara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • seara” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • seara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • seara” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • seara” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

    Portuguese

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽara, from Iberian Vulgar Latin senara, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *senara (piece of land cultivated on the side), from *sen- (separation) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (self)) + *aryeti (to plow).

    Cognate with Galician seara, senra, Mirandese senara, Asturian senra and Spanish serna.

    Pronunciation

    • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsja.ɾɐ/
    • Homophone: ceara
    • Rhymes: -aɾɐ
    • Hyphenation: se‧a‧ra

    Noun

    seara f (plural searas)

    1. cornfield
    2. tilled land
    3. harvest

    Further reading

    Romanian

    Etymology

    From seară + -a.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈse̯ara/

    Adverb

    seara

    1. in the evening
    2. every evening

    See also

    Noun

    seara

    1. definite nominative/accusative singular of seară
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.