senlleiro

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese senlleiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *sing(u)lāriu(s) (single, peculiar; singular), from Latin singulāris. Cognate with Portuguese senheiro and Spanish señero.

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Adjective

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senlleiro (feminine senlleira, masculine plural senlleiros, feminine plural senlleiras)

  1. (of cows or mares) non pregnant
  2. (of cows or mares) sterile
    Synonyms: estéril, maniño
  3. (now literary) alone; single; solitary
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:
      Et semellaua que o paaço estaua senlleyro, ca home que y estouesse nõ dezía palaura.
      And it seemed as if the palace was alone, because any man who was there said no word
    • 1922, A. Cotarelo Valledor, Trebón:
      D. Andrés: «Moi fondo caíches.» Manoel (Arrogante): «Ou moi alto ¿qué sabes ti? Un home señeiro en terra allea, sin cartos nin poder, axexado decote, decote corrido, en loita fera con xusticias e con leises, co'esas leises, que facedes vós que o tedes todo: pan, casa, lume e amor.»
      Don Andrés: «You fell very deep.» Manuel (haughtily): «Or very high, what do you know? A estranger [lit. man alone] in a strange land, out of money or power, watched all the time, all the time driven out, fighting a fierce fight with justices and laws, with that laws you make, the ones who have everything: bread, home, light, love.»
  4. (formal) singular, remarkable
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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *sing(u)lāriu(s), from Latin singulāris (alone, singular).

Cognate with Old Spanish sennero.

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Adjective

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senlleiro

  1. alone, unique
  2. single

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Descendants

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  • Galician: senlleiro, señeiro
  • Portuguese: senheiro