eido

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Galician

Etymology

13th century. Probably from Latin aditus (“entrance”), but compare Welsh eiddo (“property, belongings”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eido m (plural eidos)

  1. dwelling, farmhouse, manor
    • 1288, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 195:
      aquele eydo en que ora uoſ morades
      that place where now ye dwell
    • 1797, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Máis garrida que a rosa no seu leito (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 19-20):
      Istaba a dona do meu amante peyto / Nó eydo di seu pay, no seu travallo
      The mistress of my loving breast was standing / by his father's home, in her work
    Synonyms: casa, lar
  2. yards, gardens, terrains adjoining or inside the precinct of a house or group oh houses
    Synonyms: casal, quinteiro
    • 1399, Ermelindo Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 457:
      enno eydo de bragadela que esta ena dita filigresia tanbem casas et herdades segundo que esta enno chouso de bragadela çircundado
      in the place of Bragadela, which is in the aforementioned parish; also houses and properties as they are enclosed by the fence of Bragadela
  3. patch of farmland
    Synonym: leira
  4. (figurative, usually in the plural) homeland; place of origin
    Synonym: lar
  5. (literary) scope, field
    Synonym: ámbito

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