postremeiro

Galician

Alternative forms

• postrimeiro, postromeiro

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese postremeiro, from Latin postrēmus (“last”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [postɾeˈmejɾʊ]

Adjective

postremeiro (feminine postremeira, masculine plural postremeiros, feminine plural postremeiras)

1. (now literary) last (coming after all others)

   Synonym: derradeiro

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “postremeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “postr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “postremeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “postremeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Old Galician-Portuguese

FWOTD – 21 September 2013

Etymology

From Latin postrēmus (“last”) +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pos.tɾe.ˈmej.ɾo/, [pos̺.tɾe.ˈmej.ɾo]

Adjective

postremeiro m (plural postremeiros, feminine postremeira, feminine plural postremeiras)

1. last (coming after all others)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 317 (facsimile):

     Esta e dun miragre que fez ſṫa m̈ de ſalaſ por hũa moller de Lerida q̇lle morrerõ ſeo_ſ fillos, ⁊ o poſtremeiro reſſucitoullo ſanta maria, que auia tres dias que era morto.

     This one is about a miracle that Holy Mary of Salas worked for a woman from Lerida whose children had died, and Holy Mary resuscitated the last one, who had been dead for three days.

Descendants

• Galician: postremeiro
• Portuguese: postrimeiro