lumieira

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Galician

Lumieira

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lumẽeira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin lūmināria (skylight, window), from Latin lūmen. Cognate with Spanish lumbrera (louver) and French lumière.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lumiˈejɾa/
  • Rhymes: -ejɾa
  • Hyphenation: lu‧mi‧ei‧ra

Noun

lumieira f (plural lumieiras)

  1. (architecture) skylight
    Synonyms: biolo, bufarda, claraboia, fachal, mainel
    • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:
      se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua
      if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense
  2. (architecture) lintel
    Synonyms: cargadoiro, lintel, padieira, sobrelume
  3. bonfire
    Synonyms: cacharela, fogueira
  4. match
    Synonyms: misto, fósforo

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “lumbre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos