barbeiro

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barbeiro

Noun

barbeiro (plural barbeiros)

1. kissing bug

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century: barba +‎ -eiro. Compare Portuguese barbeiro, Spanish barbero, English barber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baɾˈβejɾʊ]

Noun

barbeiro m (plural barbeiros, feminine barbeira, feminine plural barbeiras)

1. barber

Related terms

• barba
• barbería

References

• “barbeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “barueyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “barbeyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “barbeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “barbeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “barbeiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

barbeiro

Alternative forms

• barbeyro (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *barveiro. By surface analysis, barba (“beard”) +‎ -eiro.

Cognate with Galician barbeiro.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈbe(j).ɾu/ [baɦˈbe(ɪ̯).ɾu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈbe(j).ɾu/ [baɦˈbe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /baɾˈbe(j).ɾu/ [baɾˈbe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baʁˈbe(j).ɾu/ [baʁˈbe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baɻˈbe(j).ɾo/ [baɻˈbe(ɪ̯).ɾo]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈbɐj.ɾu/ [bɐɾˈβɐj.ɾu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈbɐj.ɾu/ [bɐɾˈβɐj.ɾu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈbej.ɾu/ [bɐɾˈβej.ɾu]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈbej.ɾu/ [bɐɾˈβej.ɾu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈbe.ɾu/ [bɐɾˈβe.ɾu]

• Rhymes: -ejɾu, -ɐjɾu, -eɾu
• Hyphenation: bar‧bei‧ro

Noun

barbeiro m (plural barbeiros, feminine barbeira, feminine plural barbeiras)

1. barber (person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards)

   Coordinate term: cabeleireiro

   • 1516, “De fernam da ſilueyra a dõ rrodriguo de caſtro […]”, in Garcia de Resende, compiler, Cancioneiro geral‎^[1], Lisbon: Hermã de Cãmpos, page CLVIII:

     E quero saber primeyro
     ſeſtaua hy ioam foguaça
     & ſſe vos diſſe o barbeyro
     em acabando pꝛol faça.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1688, Joam da Fonseca, chapter XV, in Escola da Doutrina Christam […] , Évora: Officina da Vniversidade, Do 4. Dom, page 388:

     Andando o tempo alguns de ſeus vaſſallos poderozos, aos quais elle obrigou a viver, como convinha, ſe conjuraram contra elle, & vendo o naõ podiam matar publicamente por cauza do povo, que o amava muyto; ſe cõcertaram com hũ barbeyro, para que fazendolhe a barba, o degolaſſe […]

     After some time, some of his powerful vassals, whom he forced to live as he saw fit, have cospired against him. And seeing that they couldn't kill him in public because of the people, who loved him, they arranged a barber to, while shaving him, slit his throat.

2. (colloquial, metonymically) barbershop (place of business of a barber)

   Synonym: barbearia

3. (Brazil) kissing bug (any haematophagous bug in the subfamily Triatominae)
4. (Brazil, slang, derogatory) road hog (bad or inconsiderate driver)

Derived terms

• barbeiragem

 

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: barberu