lecer

Galician

Recreation area ("área de lecer") O Reguiño, Dadín.

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lezer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Old French leisir given its exclusive use as a noun, from Latin licēre, infinitive of licet. Compare Portuguese lazer and English leisure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈθeɾ/, (western) /leˈseɾ/

Noun

lecer m (plural leceres)

1. spare time, leisure; opportunity, occasion

   Synonyms: enateza, folga, vagar

   • 2005, José Manuel Santos Solla, Galicia en cartel, Univ Santiago de Compostela, →ISBN, page 14:

     Máis tardíamente, e non sempre con moito ánimo, o lecer vaise vendo como un tempo necesario para que o proletariado recupere as forzas físicas e psíquicas para manter a súa función no sistema.

     Later, and not always with great spirit, leisure is seen progressively as a time needed for the proletariat to recover the physical and phycological strength to carry on with their mission in the system

2. pleasure, recreation

Derived terms

• área de lecer (“recreation area”)

References

• “lezer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lezer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lecer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.