esteo

From Old Galician-Portuguese esteo, from Latin stilus.^[1] Cognate with Portuguese esteio and Old Spanish estelo. Doublet of estilo.

• estilo

• IPA^(key): /esˈte.o̝/

esteo m (plural esteos)

1. prop, stay

   Synonyms: arxón, escora, rodriga

2. pillar, column

   Synonyms: pé, piar

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 232:

     Et sabede que as feyturas do sobrado que erã de ouro fino et os esteos de tódoslos paaços erã de cristal

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. stake

   Synonym: estaca

• estear

From proto-Galician *esteno, ultimately from Latin extenuō. Compare Asturian estenar^[2]

• estiño

• IPA^(key): /esˈteʊ̯/

esteo (feminine estea, masculine plural esteos, feminine plural esteas)

1. clear (free of clouds)

esteo m (plural esteos)

1. dry and clear weather in between showers

   Synonyms: aberta, escampada, esteada

• esteada
• estear

esteo

1. first-person singular present indicative of estear

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esteo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esteo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esteo”, 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), “esteo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esteo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Either from Latin stilus, or from Old French estai, from Proto-Germanic *stagą. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): /esˈte.o/

esteo m (plural esteos)

1. pillar, column
2. support, prop
3. stake

• Galician: esteo
• Portuguese: esteio

• “esteo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “estilo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos