testeira
Galician
Etymology
Attested since the 13th century. From testa (“front”) + -eira.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛsˈtejɾa̝/
Noun
testeira m (plural testeiras)
- frontal, façade
- Synonym: fachada
- headboard, bedhead
- Synonym: cabeceira
- side, boundary
- Synonym: estremeira
- 1447, M. del Carmen Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 327:
- Item mays o pardinneiro que esta enna testeira da vinna onde esta a figueira bordiando et outro meo pardinneiro que esta na testeira [da] dita vinna con a carvalla que esta iunto con o dito meo pardinneiro.
- Item, the ruins that are on the side of the vineyard where there is a bordering fig tree, and another half of a ruined building that is on the side of the aforementioned vineyard with the old oak tree that is next to this ruin.
Adjective
testeira f sg
- feminine singular of testeiro
- Synonym: estremeira
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “testeyr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “testeira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “testeira”, 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), “testeira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tesˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [tesˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /teʃˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [teʃˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tesˈte(j).ɾa/ [tesˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨʃˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨʃˈtej.ɾɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨʃˈtej.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨʃˈte.ɾɐ/
- Hyphenation: tes‧tei‧ra
Noun
testeira f (plural testeiras)
- headband (strip of fabric worn around the head)
- headstall (the part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head)
Further reading
- “testeira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025