magueiro

Galician

Etymology

Etymology tree

Galician maga (guts of fish)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Old Galician-Portuguese -eiro

Galician -eiro

Galician magueiro

From maga (guts of fish) + -eiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣejɾo̝/

Noun

magueiro m (plural magueiros)

1. (dated) installations for the production of oil through the fermentation of fish
   • 1496, J. Armas Castro, editor, Pontevedra en los Siglos XII a XV, page 385:

     Outrosy con condiçon que ninguna persona non seja ousada de fazer magueyro nin cortello en ninguna rua publica salbo de fora da villa

     Also, that nobody should build a magueyro or a pigsty in any public street, except outside of town

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “magueiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega