sequeiro

Galician

Sequeiros for chestnuts

Etymology

From seco (“dry”) +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkejɾo̝/

Noun

sequeiro m (plural sequeiros)

1. a room or installation used for drying wood or nuts
   • 1438, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 226:

     que vos aforamos o nosso lugar de Souto do Rego [...] con tal condiçon que façades hy hun sequeyro e que o tenades cuberto e ben reparado

     we loan to you our place named Souto do Rego (Chestnut wood by the stream) [...] on the condition that you should build a dryer there, and you should keep it repaired and roofed

2. a dry terrain

Derived terms

• Sequeiro
• Sequeiros
• Sequeirós

Related terms

• seco

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sequeyr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sequeiro”, 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), “sequeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sequeiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN