landra

• landa, lande, landre, lendre, landia, lándora, alandua, alánduga

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin glāndula (“little acorn; tonsil”), or from Vulgar Latin glandinem,^[1] from Latin glāns (“acorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”). Doublet of glande or glándula. Compare also Spanish landre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlandɾa̝/

landra f (plural landras)

1. acorn

   Synonym: belota

2. swollen lymph node
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 109:

     queimaras con fero feruente rredondo as llandooas que tem o Cauallo ontre o Collo et a cabeça so as qeixadas

     you'll burn with a round red hot iron the [swollen] nodes that the horse has in between the neck and the jaw

• landeira
• Landoeira

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “landoa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “landra”, 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), “landra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “landra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

landra f (plural landre)

1. alternative form of landa