escudeiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum (“shield”).

• IPA^(key): /eskuˈðejɾo̝/

escudeiro m (plural escudeiros)

1. (dated) shield maker
2. (dated) squire
3. (dated) a nobleman of inferior rank who served a knight, a churchman, or another nobleman
   • 1414, in the tombstone of a nobleman:

     Aquí jaz jan feyjoo escudeyro / bon fidalgo e verdadeyro gran / caçador e monteyro

     Here lies Jan Feijoo, squire, a good nobleman and a true great hunter and ranger

• Escudeiro
• Escudeiros
• escudo

• “escudeyro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “scudeiro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escudeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escudeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum. By surface analysis, escudo +‎ -eiro.

• Hyphenation: es‧cu‧dei‧ro

escudeiro m (plural escudeiros, feminine escudeira, feminine plural escudeiras)

1. squire (armour-bearer who attends a knight)

• escudo