azeiteiro

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic زَيْت (zayt)

Andalusian Arabicbor.

Old Galician-Portuguese azeite

Portuguese azeite

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Old Galician-Portuguese -eiro

Portuguese -eiro

Portuguese azeiteiro

From azeite (“olive oil”) + -eiro.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.zejˈte(j).ɾu/ [a.zeɪ̯ˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.zɐjˈtɐj.ɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.zɐjˈtɐj.ɾu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.zejˈtej.ɾu/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.zejˈtej.ɾu/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.zeˈte.ɾu/

• Hyphenation: a‧zei‧tei‧ro

Noun

azeiteiro m (plural azeiteiros, feminine azeiteira, feminine plural azeiteiras)

1. a person involved in the production or sale of olive oil; oilman
2. (Portugal, colloquial) a tasteless person
3. (Brazil, colloquial) a womanizer

Further reading

• “azeiteiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “azeiteiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026