lumieira

Galician

Lumieira

Alternative forms

• lumeira

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lumẽeira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin lūmināria (“skylight, window”), from Latin lūmen. Cognate with Spanish lumbrera (“louver”) and French lumière.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lumiˈejɾɐ]

Noun

lumieira f (plural lumieiras)

1. (architecture) skylight

   Synonyms: biolo, bufarda, claraboia, fachal, mainel

   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua

     if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense

2. (architecture) lintel

   Synonyms: cargadoiro, lintel, padieira, sobrelume

3. bonfire

   Synonyms: cacharela, fogueira

4. match

   Synonyms: misto, fósforo

Related terms

• alumear
• lume

References

• “lumeeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “lumieira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lumieira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lumieira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lumieira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.