loureiro

• Loureiro

Borrowed from Portuguese loureiro. Doublet of laurel.

loureiro (countable and uncountable, plural loureiros)

1. A grape variety cultivated in Spain and Portugal, used in the production of white wine.
   • 2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The 2016 Phaunus Vinho Verde from Aphros in Portugal, made entirely of the loureiro grape, seemed to have the weight and depth of Champagne.

2. A variety of white wine made from this grape.

From Old Galician-Portuguese loureiro, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus. By surface analysis, louro (“laurel, laurel leaf”) +‎ eiro.

• IPA^(key): [lou̯ˈɾei̯ɾʊ]

loureiro m (plural loureiros)

1. bay (Laurus nobilis)

   Synonyms: gamallo, louro

2. bay leaf
3. a grape variety local to Galicia and Portugal

• loureira
• Loureiral
• Loureiro
• Loureiros

• lorbaga
• louro
• Loureda
• Louredo
• Lourido

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese loureiro, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius,^[1] from Latin laurus. By surface analysis, louro (“laurel, laurel leaf”) +‎ -eiro.^[2][3]

• Rhymes: -ejɾu, (Portugal) -ɐjɾu
• Homophone: Loureiro
• Hyphenation: lou‧rei‧ro

loureiro m (plural loureiros)

1. bay (Laurus nobilis, a shrub of the Mediterranean)

   Synonym: louro

• → English: loureiro