mosqueira

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin muscaria (“related to flies; fibrous, hairy parts of plants”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkejɾa̝/

Noun

mosqueira f (plural mosqueiras)

1. (uncountable) fodder; unripe cereal

   Synonyms: ferraña, forraxe

   • 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Dominguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:

     et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan

     and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain

2. cupboard protected by a mosquito net, for storing food at room temperature but preserved from flies and bugs

Derived terms

• Mosqueira

Related terms

• mosca

Etymology 2

Related to amosegar (“to gnaw”) + -eira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔsˈkejɾa̝/

Noun

mosqueira f (plural mosqueiras)

1. notch in the cancil

References

• “mosqueira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mosqueira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mosqueira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mosqueira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.