regueiro

Galician

Regueiro

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese regueiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from rego +‎ -eiro. Compare Spanish reguero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈɣejɾo̝/

Noun

regueiro m (plural regueiros)

1. stream, brook
   • 1282, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 390:

     vendo essa mia herdade que iaz a su a uossa granja de Penellas, untre anballas aguas dos regueyrus que per y corren d'ona parte et da outra, et uay firir áás mestas u se anbus estes regeyrus mexen

     I sell my property that is next to your farm of Penelas, in between both waters of the streams that flow there, and its perimeter comes to the confluence where both this streams mix together

   Synonyms: arroio, regato, rego

2. ditch

   Synonym: rego

3. soggy meadow

   Synonyms: illó, lameiro

Derived terms

• regueira
• Regueira
• Regueiral
• Regueiras
• Regueiriño
• Regueiro
• Regueiros

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “regueiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “regueiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From rego (“ditch”) +‎ -eiro.

Noun

regueiro m (plural regueiros)

1. Synonym of regueira

Etymology 2

From reggae +‎ -eiro.

Noun

regueiro m (plural regueiros, feminine regueira, feminine plural regueiras)

1. a fan of reggae
2. a raggae musician