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Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈkejɾo/
- Rhymes: -ejɾo
- Hyphenation: es‧quei‧ro
Etymology 1
Circa 1300. From esca + -eiro.
Noun
esqueiro m (plural esqueiros)
- small container for tinder, tinderbox
c. 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220:y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el- there he found, together with that bow, a deed, with his tinderbox, and its tinder, and its flint inside it
1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 296:que lle tomara e roubara ena Portella d'Azebedo, hun capuço nouo de morilla et hua capa trabera de mescra branca et hua çinta e hun esqeiro et çen pares de brancas et hun frolín en ouro et seys congros frescos et quatro lagostas- that they took and robbed from him, in the pass of Acevedo, a new hood of dark cloth and a cloak of white mixed cloth and a ribbon and a tinderbox and a hundred pairs of brancas and a florin of gold and six fresh congers and four lobsters
Etymology 2
From Latin scālārium (“flight of stairs”).[1]
Noun
esqueiro m (plural esqueiros)
- flight of steps
- small ladder
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “squeyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esqueiro”, 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), “esqueiro <esca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (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), “esqueiro <esqueira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esqueiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “escayro”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7), A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.