lousa

See also: Lousã

Galician

A traditional lousado or roof tilled with lousa in northern Galicia

Alternative forms

• loixa, louxa

Etymology

Documented in local Medieval Latin as lausa, and in the Iberian peninsula already in the 2nd century; from a local substrate language, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *laws- (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“stone”). Cognate with Spanish losa, French lauze, Old Occitan lausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlowsa̝/

Noun

lousa f (plural lousas)

1. (uncountable) slatestone
   • 1441, José-Luis Novo Cazón (ed. ), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 364:

     a a tal condiçon que uos, o dicto Loppo Doucos, façades a dicta casa de pedra et de madeyra et de lousa et do al que ouuer mester et a tenades en bon paramento et ben reparada et morada et con ho orto feyto

     in the condition that you, the mentioned Lopo Doucos, must build that house with stone, and wood, and slate, and the rest of needed things, and that you should keep it in good state, repaired, inhabited and with its garden

2. (countable, uncountable) flagstone
   • 1446, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 427:

     que vos avemos de dar dous carros de lousa para cobrir ho dito lagar, et vos que o façades por vosa custa

     we shall give you two carts full of flagstones for roofing that winery, and you should do that at your expenses

3. a slab

Derived terms

• enlousar (“to pave, to roof”)
• Lousa
• Lousada
• Lousadela
• lousado (“roof tilled with flagstones”)
• Lousado
• lousar (“to pave, to roof”)
• louseira (“slate quarry”)
• Louseira
• Louseiro

References

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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lousa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

lousa

Alternative forms

• loisa (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *laws- (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo(w).za/, /ˈlo(w).zɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlo(w).zɐ/
• Hyphenation: lou‧sa

Noun

lousa f (plural s)

1. board (blackboard, whiteboard etc)
2. flagstone (piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing)
3. (Portugal) slate (rock)

Synonyms

• (board): quadro, quadro-negro
• (flagstone): laje
• (slate): ardósia

Coordinate terms

• (board): apagador, giz

Derived terms

• Lousa
• lousa digital