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Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1150 inside local Latin documents. From tenro (“tender”) + -eiro. Compare Spanish ternero.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tenreiro (feminine tenreira, masculine plural tenreiros, feminine plural tenreiras)
- (dated) tender, young
Noun
tenreiro f (plural tenreiros)
- calf
- Synonyms: cucho, pucho, tenreira, xato
References
- “tenreiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tenreiro”, 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), “tenreiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tenreiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
tenreiro m (plural tenreiros)
- (obsolete) calf (young bull)
- Synonyms: bezerro, novilho, almalho, vítulo, vitelo, terneiro