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Galician
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agoiro (13th c.), from Latin augurium. Cognate with Portuguese agoiro and Spanish agüero.
Pronunciation
Noun
agoiro m (plural agoiros)
- omen, presage
1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:¿Jdes catar agoyro hu nõ jaz senõ mẽtira?- Are you going to see an omen where there is nothing but lies?
- annoying person
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “agoiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “agoyr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “agoiro”, 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), “agoiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “agoiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin augurium, with metathesis. Cognate with Old Spanish aguero.
Pronunciation
Noun
agoiro m
- omen, augury
Descendants
Further reading
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agoiro, from Latin augurium. Doublet of augúrio, which was borrowed from Latin.
Noun
agoiro m (plural agoiros)
- omen, prophecy
Usage notes
- Often used in the context of predicting bad events.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
agoiro
- first-person singular present indicative of agoirar