liteira

Galician

Etymology

In the sense given below, seemingly borrowed from Catalan llitera or French litière, both from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding”). Compare the synonymous Spanish litera, also borrowed from Gallo-Romance.

There also existed, however, a liteira (“bedding”) in thirteenth-century Old Galician-Portuguese, which might represent a direct inheritance of the Late Latin lectuāria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [liˈtejɾɐ]

Noun

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter (platform mounted on two shafts, used for the human-powered transportation of people)
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     E se eu fora sua Ama,
     que de regalos comera
     e mais avia d'andar
     metida nunha Liteyra.

     If I was her milkmaid
     so many delicatessens I would eat
     and I would go around
     inside a litter

Related terms

• leito

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “liteira”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “liteira”, 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), “liteira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [liˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [liˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈte(j).ɾa/ [liˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈte.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: li‧tei‧ra

Etymology 1

See Galician liteira above.

Noun

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter (bed, couch, or chair elevated on poles and carried as a mode of transport)

Hyponyms

• palanquim (Asian)

Derived terms

• liteireiro

Related terms

• leito

Etymology 2

From English litter, q.v.

Noun

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter box

   Synonym: caixa de areia

2. pet carrier

References

• “liteira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “liteira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

Further reading

• “liteira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026