Mosteiró

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosteyroo, from Late Latin monasteriolum (“little monastery”), from monasterium (“monastery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mostejˈɾɔ/

Proper noun

Mosteiró m

1. A village in Goó parish, O Incio, Lugo, Galicia

Related terms

• Mosteirón

References

• “Mosteiró” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mosteyroo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Heinz Jürgen Wolf (2007) “Le type *PALATIOLUM et autres diminutifs en toponymie”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique‎^[1], volumes 47-48, →ISSN, pages 229-243.