peneira

Galician

Peneiras and other domestic tools

Peneira

Alternative forms

• pineira

Etymology

13th century. From Vulgar Latin *pinnaria, from Latin pinna (“feather”). Note that medieval Galician pena meant "pelt". Cognate with Portuguese peneira and Asturian peñera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈnejɾa̝/

Noun

peneira f (plural peneiras)

1. sieve usually used to sift flour
   • 1402, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 342:

     It. hua peneyra vella

     Item, an old sieve

   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:

     Hun saco cheo de farina triiga, tres peneyras, hun restrello, dous odres

     A sack full of wheat flour, three sieves, a heap of chestnuts, two goatskins

   Synonyms: criba, baruto, bortel, xirgo

2. abalone, ear shell

   Synonym: orella de mar

Derived terms

• peneirar (“to sieve”)

Related terms

• pena (“pelt”)

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peneyr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “peneira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pānāria, feminine of pānārium (“breadbasket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ˈne(j).ɾa/, /pe.ˈne(j).ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧nei‧ra

Noun

peneira f (plural s)

1. sieve (device to separate larger objects)
2. (figurative) something which selects the best and filters out the rest

Synonyms

• (sieve): coador, crivo, joeira

Related terms

• peneiração
• peneirada
• peneirado

• peneirador
• peneiragem
• peneiramento

• peneirar
• peneireiro
• peneiro

Derived terms

• tapar o sol com a peneira

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: beneela

Verb

peneira

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