monteira

Galician

Musicians wearing traditional monteiras

Old man wearing a monteira

Etymology

From monte (“hill, woodland, wild”) +‎ -eira. Cognate with Spanish montera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /monˈtejɾa̝/

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

1. traditional Galician cap or hat wore by men, and whose design usually revealed the geographic origin of the user

See also

• monteira on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

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