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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum (“shield”).
Pronunciation
Noun
escudeiro m (plural escudeiros)
- (dated) shield maker
- (dated) squire
- (dated) a nobleman of inferior rank who served a knight, a churchman, or another nobleman
- 1414, in the tombstone of a nobleman:
- Aquí jaz jan feyjoo escudeyro / bon fidalgo e verdadeyro gran / caçador e monteyro
- Here lies Jan Feijoo, squire, a good nobleman and a true great hunter and ranger
References
- “escudeyro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “scudeiro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escudeiro”, 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), “escudeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum. By surface analysis, escudo + -eiro.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: es‧cu‧dei‧ro
Noun
escudeiro m (plural escudeiros, feminine escudeira, feminine plural escudeiras)
- squire (armour-bearer who attends a knight)