monteira

Galician

Musicians wearing traditional monteiras

Old man wearing a monteira

Etymology

From monte (“hill, woodland, wild”) +‎ -eira. Cognate with Spanish montera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [monˈtejɾɐ]

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

1. traditional pronged Galician cap or hat wore by men, and whose design traditionally revealed the geographic origin of the user
   • 1820, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Os servís e os liberás:

     Palurdos que vos vestides,
     Como eu, de sayo de lá,
     Polainas, zocos, monteira,
     E un bo baloco na man

     Rustics that wear,
     as myself, with a woolen robe,
     gaiters, clogs, cap
     and a good staff in hand

See also

• monteira on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾa/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈte.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: mon‧tei‧ra

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

1. female equivalent of monteiro