manteiga

12th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese manteiga, already attested with this spelling in a Galician Latin document from 1118; from Paleo-Hispanic, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European (cf. Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian сметана (smetana), Polish śmietana, Slovak smotana and Slovene smetana).^[1] Cognate with Portuguese manteiga, Asturian mantega, Spanish manteca and Catalan mantega.

• Hyphenation: man‧tei‧ga

manteiga f (plural manteigas)

1. butter
   • 1286, Miguel Romaní (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). 3 vols. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións (1989, 1989, 1993), page 1131:

     huna escaa de manteyga et dous queygios

     one bowl of butter and two cheeses

2. clarified butter

• Manteiga
• manteigoso

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “manteiga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “manteiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manteiga”, 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), “manteiga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manteiga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian.

• IPA^(key): /manˈtei̯ɡa/

manteiga f (plural manteigas)

1. butter

• Galician: manteiga
• Portuguese: manteiga (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "manteiga"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese manteiga, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Paleo-Hispanic such as Iberian or Celtiberian.

Cognate with Galician and Mirandese manteiga, Asturian and Catalan mantega, Spanish and Aragonese manteca and possibly with Proto-Slavic *sъmetana (“sour cream”).

• Rhymes: -eɡɐ, -ejɡɐ, -ɐjɡɐ
• Hyphenation: man‧tei‧ga

manteiga f (plural manteigas)

1. butter (fatty and unctuous substance obtained from the cream of milk)
2. lard
3. fatty substance of some vegetables
4. (figuratively) lip service

• “manteiga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “manteiga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Portuguese manteiga (“butter”), from Old Galician-Portuguese manteiga.

manteiga

1. butter