regueiro

Galician

Regueiro

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese regueiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from rego +‎ -eiro. Compare Spanish reguero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈɣejɾo̝/

Noun

regueiro m (plural regueiros)

1. stream, brook

   Synonyms: arroio, regato, rego

   • 1282, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 390:

     vendo essa mia herdade que iaz a su a uossa granja de Penellas, untre anballas aguas dos regueyrus que per y corren d'ona parte et da outra, et uay firir áás mestas u se anbus estes regeyrus mexen

     I sell my property that is next to your farm of Penelas, in between both waters of the streams that flow there, and its perimeter comes to the confluence where both this streams mix together

2. ditch

   Synonym: rego

3. soggy meadow

   Synonyms: illó, lameiro

Derived terms

• regueira
• Regueira
• Regueiral
• Regueiras
• Regueiriño
• Regueiro
• Regueiros

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “regueiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “regueiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “regueiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “regueiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “regueiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈɡe(j).ɾu/ [heˈɡe(ɪ̯).ɾu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈɡe(j).ɾu/ [heˈɡe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈɡe(j).ɾu/ [χeˈɡe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈɡe(j).ɾo/ [heˈɡe(ɪ̯).ɾo]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈɡɐj.ɾu/ [ʁɨˈɣɐj.ɾu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈɡɐj.ɾu/ [ʁɨˈɣɐj.ɾu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈɡej.ɾu/ [ʁɨˈɣej.ɾu]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈɡej.ɾu/ [ʁɨˈɣej.ɾu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈɡe.ɾu/ [ʁɨˈɣe.ɾu]

• Hyphenation: re‧guei‧ro

Etymology 1

From rego (“ditch”) +‎ -eiro.

Noun

regueiro m (plural regueiros)

1. Synonym of regueira

Etymology 2

From reggae +‎ -eiro.

Noun

regueiro m (plural regueiros, feminine regueira, feminine plural regueiras)

1. a fan of reggae
2. a raggae musician