tellado

See also: Tellado

Galician

tellado or lousado, Lugo, Galicia

teito, Piornedo, Galicia

tellados, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese tellado (“roof”), from Vulgar Latin *teglātu, from Latin tēgulātum, from tēgula (“a roof-tile”). Compare Portuguese telhado, Spanish tejado, Catalan teulada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈʎaðo̝/

Noun

tellado m (plural tellados)

1. roof, especially when tiled
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 142:

     Declarou Gonçaluo de Seara que leuara do baño do Posyo seys tellas e as tirara do tellado et que Gonçaluo de Sárrea que leuara a pechadura do baño do Posío da porta de dentro

     Gonzalo de Seara declared that he had taken away from the baths of Posío six tiles, which he removed from the roof; and that Gonzalo de Sarria took away the lock of the baths of Posío, from the inner door

   Synonyms: lousado, teito

Derived terms

• Tellado

Related terms

• tella

Adjective

tellado (feminine tellada, masculine plural tellados, feminine plural telladas)

1. tiled
   • 1380, C. Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 470:

     en Moldes hun casal et hun paaço tellado

     in Molder a country house and a tiled manor

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tellado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tellado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tellado”, 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), “tellado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tellado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN