pedreiro

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Galician

Pedreiro or canteiro

Etymology

From pedra (“stone”) + -eiro.

Pronunciation

Noun

pedreiro m (plural pedreiros, feminine pedreira, feminine plural pedreiras)

  1. stonemason
    Synonym: canteiro
    • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 207:
      mando que non possan tomar as ditas pesoas et coengos et homes boos da dita iglesia por panigoados os ofiçiales conuen a saber os carpenteiros et pedreiros et carniçeyros et ferreyros et çapateyros et peliteyros et mercadores
      I command that no churchman could take for a stooge any official, i.e., the carpenters and stonemasons and butchers and smiths and shoemakers and furriers and merchants
  2. landmark

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pedreiro, from pedra (“rock”) + -eiro (“-eer”), or less likely from a Vulgar Latin *petrārius, from Latin petra (“rock”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”). Compare Spanish pedrero, Asturian pedreru, Catalan pedrer, Occitan peirièr, Romanian pietrar.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pe‧drei‧ro

Noun

pedreiro m (plural pedreiros, feminine pedreira, feminine plural pedreiras)

  1. mason; builder; bricklayer
    Synonyms: alvanel, construtor, obreiro

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