peneirar

Galician

Alternative forms

• pineirar

Etymology

15th century. From peneira (“sieve”) + the verbal suffix -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /penejˈɾaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to sieve
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Introdución, transcrición e glosario. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 111:

     [...] fage poo de todo et peneirao moi ben

     [take the ingredients] reduce them to powder and sieve it carefully

   Synonym: cribar

2. (figurative) to purify
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, figurative) to swagger

References

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

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Portuguese

Verb

1. to sieve, sift, screen