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Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From *loumiño, from Old Occitan lauza amia (“praise the girlfriend”),[1] or rather from a Late Latin laudemia, and -eiro.
Pronunciation
Noun
aloumiñeiro m (plural aloumiñeiros)
- flatterer
1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 701:Cõta a estoria outrosy que seu yrmaom, el rrey dõ Fernando de Leom, seyu muy boo rrey, senõ por que tragia loomineyros- The story tells otherwise that his brother, king Don Fernando of León, was a very good king, if not because he brought flatterers with him
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