seara

See also: Seara, searã, and seară

Galician

Alternative forms

• senra

Etymology

See senra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈaɾa̝/

Noun

seara f (plural searas)

1. communal terrain, usually left fallow, undivided and covered by bushes, which is eventually grazed and plowed for the temporal production of rye or wheat; swidden

   Synonyms: cavada, estivada, roza

2. cornfield
3. (dated) day labor
   • 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:

     Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar

     You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

Derived terms

• Seara
• seareiro

References

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• senra

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽara, from Iberian Vulgar Latin senara, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *senara (“piece of land cultivated on the side”), from *sen- (“separation”) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + *aryeti (“to plow”).

Cognate with Galician seara, senra, Mirandese senara, Asturian senra and Spanish serna.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsja.ɾɐ/
• Homophone: ceara
• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧a‧ra

Noun

seara f (plural searas)

1. cornfield
2. tilled land
3. harvest

Further reading

• “seara” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “seara” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “seara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “seara” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “seara” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “seara” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From seară +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse̯ara/

Adverb

seara

1. in the evening
2. every evening

See also

• dimineața
• după-amiaza
• noaptea
• ziua

Noun

seara

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of seară