Galician edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

15th century. From peneira (sieve) + the verbal suffix -ar.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

peneirar (first-person singular present peneiro, first-person singular preterite peneirei, past participle peneirado)

  1. (transitive) to sieve
    Synonym: cribar
    • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria. Introdución, transcrición e glosario, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 111:
      [...] fage poo de todo et peneirao moi ben
      [take the ingredients] reduce them to powder and sieve it carefully
  2. (figurative) to purify
  3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, figurative) to swagger

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • peneir” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • peneirar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • peneirar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • peneirar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
  • peneirar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From peneira +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pe‧nei‧rar

Verb edit

peneirar (first-person singular present peneiro, first-person singular preterite peneirei, past participle peneirado)

  1. to sieve, sift, screen

Conjugation edit