mellora

Galician

Etymology 1

14th century. Back-formation from mellorar. Compare Portuguese melhora and Spanish mejora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈʎoɾa̝/

Noun

mellora f (plural melloras)

1. improvement, amelioration
2. (law) share of a heritage which a person can freely bequeath to any of his or her heirs, and which exceeds that of the rest
   • 1368, A. López Ferreiro, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 348:

     mando a o dito meu fillo andreu em rraçon do terço et por rraçon de melloria sobre los outros seus yrmaos et yrmaas a mia casa forte de Cira et as armas et bastimento que y esteuer a tempo de meu finamento

     I bequeath the aforementioned Andreu, my son, because of the third and of the improvement over his brothers and sisters, my stronghold of Cira, with all the weapons and supplies that happen to be there at the time of my death

Synonyms

• melloría
• melloramento

References

• “mellora” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “mellora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mellora” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mellora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mellora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mellora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

mellora

1. inflection of mellorar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative