xeración

Galician

Alternative forms

• xerazón

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin generatiō. Cognate with Portuguese geração and Spanish generación.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃeɾaˈθjoŋ/

Noun

xeración f (plural xeracións)

1. generation, action of producing life; descendence
   • 1294, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 271:

     Seya maldito ata setyma geeraçon todo ome que este meu testamento quiser passar ou enbargar

     Every man that this, my testament, wants to pass or impound shall be damned till the seventh generation

   • 1368, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 349:

     It. lle mando mays a mia casa forte de Rodeiro. con todas las armas. et bastimento que y esteuer. a tempo de meu finamento. con aquellas maneyras et condiçoes que a min mandou o arcibispo dom Martino. que fique senpre enno Primeyro fillo barom et del enno outro et de huun neto que del descender enno outro por sustituyçon como o eu mellor poso et deuo mandar de dereyto. por sustituyçon et se non oueer y baroes que se torne enna primeyra filla que del descender et a a sua geeraçon.

     Item, I bequeath my stronghold of Rodeiro, with all the weapons and provisions that happen to be there at the moment of my decease, with the manners and conditions that the archbishop, Don Martiño, ordered to me: that it stays always with the eldest male son, and from him in the other, and from a grandson who from him descends into another, by substitution, as best as I can do and order in the law, by substitution, and if there were no males, that it turns into the eldest daughter that from him descends an in her offsprings

2. production, manufacture, action of producing
3. a generation; group of people of approximately the same age
4. a period of time measuring groups of descendants

Related terms

• xerar
• xeracional

References

• “gearaçõ” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “gearaçon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “xeración” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xeración” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Further reading

• “xeración” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.