caseiro

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from casa (“house”) +‎ -eiro, or from Latin casārius. Compare Spanish casero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsejɾo̝/

Adjective

caseiro (feminine caseira, masculine plural caseiros, feminine plural caseiras)

1. homemade, home-grown

   Insisto, vas probar esta augardente caseira. ― I insist, you're going to taste this homemade spirit.

2. homely; home-loving

Noun

caseiro m (plural caseiros)

1. tenant of a farm or cottage
   • 1391, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", in Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 158:

     Iten mando a meu yrmao Aluaro Marques toda a minna casa de Marçay, en que mora meu caseiro Afonso Eanes

     Item, I devise to my brother Álvaro Marques my house of Marzai, in which now dwells my tenant Afonso Eanes

   Synonyms: arrendatario, colono, inquilino

Derived terms

• Caseiros

Related terms

• casa

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caseyr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “caseiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caseiro, from casa (“house”) +‎ -eiro, or from Latin casārius. Compare Spanish casero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɐ.ˈzɐj.ɾu/, /kɐ.ˈzej.ɾu/
• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈzej.ɾu/
• Hyphenation: ca‧sei‧ro

Adjective

1. homemade, home-grown

   Os pastéis são caseiros?

   Are the pastries homemade?