teor

See also: Teor

Galician

13th century. From Latin tenor. Cognate with Portuguese teor and Spanish tenor. Doublet of tenor (“tenor”).

teor m (plural teores)

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- 1357, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 87:
  mostrou e feso leer por min dito notario, ao dito Andreu Sanches, endeantado, hun escripto de protestaçón, do qual o theor tal est: [...]
  he shew and ordained to read, by me the aforementioned notary, to the aforementioned Andreu Sánchez, governor, a protest document, which content is this: [...]
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Synonym: índole

“teor” 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), “teor”, 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), “teor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin tenōrem. Doublet of tenor (“tenor”), which was borrowed from Italian.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈoʁ/ [teˈoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /teˈoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /teˈoʁ/ [teˈoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈoɻ/

teor m (plural teores)

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- 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:
  Era um pobre-diabo caminhando para os setenta anos, antipático, cabelo branco, curto e duro, como escova, barba e bigode do mesmo teor […]
  He was a poor devil reaching his seventy years, unlikable, his hair was white, short and thick, like a brush, beard and mustache of the same kind […]