figueira

From Old Galician-Portuguese figueira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīcāria.

• IPA^(key): /fi.ˈɣej.ɾa̝/,

figueira f (plural figueiras)

1. fig tree
   • 1277, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 381:

     duas figueyras que estan en esse figueyredo

     two fig trees that are in that fig tree orchard

• figo
• fígado

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “figueira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “figueyra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “figueira”, 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), “figueira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “figueira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese figueira, from Latin fīcāria. By surface analysis, figo +‎ -eira.

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ

• Homophone: Figueira
• Hyphenation: fi‧guei‧ra

figueira f (plural figueiras)

1. fig tree

• figueiral
• figueiredo
• Figueiredo
• Figueira, Figueira da Foz
• Figueiras

• figo
• fígado