Pereira
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Pereira.
Proper noun
Pereira
- A surname.
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
At face value, from pereira (“pear tree”). Alternatively, from Medieval Latin petraria, from petra (“stone”) + -aria.[1] For the evolution compare Pérez, a patronymical surname derived from Petrus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pereira f
- A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia.
- a toponymical surname
References
- "Pereira" in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- "Pereira" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
- ^ Pérez Capelo, Carolina (2017) “O sufixo diminutivo -ŎLA na toponimia galega / Diminutive suffix -ŎLA in Galician place names”, in Guavira Letras, number 25, retrieved 9 May 2018, page 132.
Portuguese
Etymology
From pereira (“pear tree”), or from a variant of pedreira (cf. Pero and Pedro). Compare Spanish Perera and Catalan Perer.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pereira m or f by sense
- a surname
Spanish
Etymology
Named after Francisco Pereira Martínez.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pereira
- the capital city of Antioquia department, Colombia