teor

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Galician

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Etymology

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13th century. From Latin tenor. Cognate with Portuguese teor and Spanish tenor. Doublet of tenor (tenor).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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teor m (plural teores)

  1. content of a document
    • 1357, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 87:
      mostrou e feso leer por min dito notario, ao dito Andreu Sanches, endeantado, hun escripto de protestaçón, do qual o theor tal est: [...]
      he shew and ordained to read, by me the aforementioned notary, to the aforementioned Andreu Sánchez, governor, a protest document, which content is this: [...]
  2. kind, type
    Synonym: índole

References

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin tenōrem. Doublet of tenor (tenor), which was borrowed from Italian.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: te‧or

Noun

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teor m (plural teores)

  1. content
  2. kind, type
    • 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:
      Era um pobre-diabo caminhando para os setenta anos, antipático, cabelo branco, curto e duro, como escova, barba e bigode do mesmo teor []
      He was a poor devil reaching his seventy years, unlikable, his hair was white, short and thick, like a brush, beard and mustache of the same kind []

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:teor.

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