Mosteirón

Galician

Alternative forms

• Mosteriom, Mosteirão (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosteyroo, attested in local Medieval Latin as monasteriolo, from Late Latin monasteriolum (“little abbey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mostejˈɾɔŋ/

Proper noun

Mosteirón m

1. A parish of Sada, A Coruña, Galicia
2. A village in Santa María de Neda parish, Neda, A Coruña, Galicia
3. A village in Covas parish, San Cristovo de Cea, Ourense, Galicia

Related terms

• Mosteiró

References

• “Mosteirón” 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.