landra

Galician

landras

Alternative forms

• alandua, alánduga, landre

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin glāndula (“little acorn; tonsil”), or from Vulgar Latin glandinem, from Latin glāns (“acorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”). Doublet of glande or glándula. Compare also Spanish landre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlandɾa̝/

Noun

landra f (plural landras)

1. acorn

   Synonym: belota

2. swollen lymph node
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 109:

     queimaras con fero feruente rredondo as llandooas que tem o Cauallo ontre o Collo et a cabeça so as qeixadas

     you'll burn with a round red hot iron the [swollen] nodes that the horse has in between the neck and the jaw

Derived terms

• landeira
• Landoeira

References

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

Italian

Noun

landra f (plural landre)

1. Alternative form of landa