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Old Spanish
Etymology
From suerte (“lot, fate”) + -ero (occupational suffix). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese sorteira (“witch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sortero m (plural sorteros, feminine singular sortera, feminine plural sorteras)
- a person who draws lots, a soothsayer or oracle
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 32v:& fue demãdar cõſeio auna mugier ſortera q̃ era en edom […] ſta mugier ouo mẏedo al reẏ e dixo q̃ nõ faria.- And he went to seek counsel from a soothsayer that lived in Edom. this woman was afraid of the king, and she said she would not do .
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