aloumiñeiro
Galician
Alternative forms
- loumiñeiro
- alouminheiro (reintegrationist)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From *loumiño, from Old Occitan lauza amia (“praise the girlfriend”),[1] or rather from a Late Latin laudemia, and -eiro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alowmiˈɲejɾo/ [a.low.mĩˈɲej.ɾʊ]
- Rhymes: -ejɾo
Noun
aloumiñeiro m (plural aloumiñeiros)
- flatterer
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 701:
- Cõta a estoria outrosy que seu yrmaom, el rrey dõ Fernando de Leom, seyu muy boo rrey, senõ por que tragia loomineyros
- The story tells otherwise that his brother, king Don Fernando of León, was a very good king, if not because he brought flatterers with him
Related terms
References
- “loomineyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “aloumiñeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aloumiñeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “loar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos