teor

Galician edit

13th century. From Latin tenor. Cognate with Portuguese teor and Spanish tenor. Doublet of tenor (“tenor”).

teor m (plural teores)

content of a document
- 1357, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 87:
  mostrou e feso leer por min dito notario, ao dito Andreu Sanches, endeantado, hun escripto de protestaçón, do qual o theor tal est: [...]
  he shew and ordained to read, by me the aforementioned notary, to the aforementioned Andreu Sánchez, governor, a protest document, which content is this: [...]
kind, type
Synonym: índole

“teor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
“teor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“teor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Inherited from Latin tenōrem. Doublet of tenor (“tenor”), which was borrowed from Italian.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈoʁ/ [teˈoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /teˈoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /teˈoʁ/ [teˈoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈoɻ/

teor m (plural teores)

content
kind, type
- 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:
  Era um pobre-diabo caminhando para os setenta anos, antipático, cabelo branco, curto e duro, como escova, barba e bigode do mesmo teor […]
  He was a poor devil reaching his seventy years, unlikable, his hair was white, short and thick, like a brush, beard and mustache of the same kind […]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:teor.