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Galician
Etymology
Feitizo (“spell”) + -eiro. Cognate with Portuguese feiticeiro and Spanish hechicero.
Attested circa 1300.
Pronunciation
Noun
feiticeiro m (plural feiticeiros, feminine feiticeira, feminine plural feiticeiras)
- sorcerer
- Synonyms: bruxo, meigo
c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 11:Et este dom Rramiro era bõo aos bõos et brauo aos maos et desfazia da sa terra os ladrões et queymaua os feytizeyros- And this lord Ramiro was good with the good, and harsh with the bad, and he threw away the thieves from his realm and burned the sorcerers
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References
- “feytizeyro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “feyti” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “feiticeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “feiticeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Portuguese
Etymology
From feitiço + -eiro.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fei‧ti‧cei‧ro
Noun
feiticeiro m (plural feiticeiros, feminine feiticeira, feminine plural feiticeiras)
- sorcerer, wizard
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