aldeia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese aldeia.

Noun

aldeia (plural aldeias)

1. (historical) In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 171:

     It is little wonder that the settlers envied the wealth of the Jesuit aldeias, and resented what they saw as the Jesuits’ obstruction of their efforts to procure an adequate supply of labour for their own plantations.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aldea, aldeya

Etymology

From Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”).

Noun

aldeia f (plural aldeias)

1. village (small settlement)

Descendants

• Galician: aldea
• Portuguese: aldeia

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "aldeia"
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aldeia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Piódão, Portugal

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese aldeia, aldea, from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish aldea, Mirandese aldé and Aragonese aldeya.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈdej.ɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈdeɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈdej.ɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈdeɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈdej.a/ [aʊ̯ˈdeɪ̯.a]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈdɐj.ɐ/ [aɫˈdɐj.ɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈdɐj.ɐ/ [aɫˈdɐj.ɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈdej.ɐ/ [aɫˈdej.ɐ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈdej.ɐ/ [aɫˈdej.ɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈde.ɐ/ [aɫˈde.ɐ]

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: al‧dei‧a

Noun

aldeia f (plural aldeias)

1. village (small settlement)

   Synonyms: povoado, lugarejo, arraial

   Coordinate terms: lugar, vila

   • 1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia‎^[1]:

     Ó sino da minha aldeia, / Dolente na tarde calma, / Cada tua badalada / Soa dentro da minha alma.

     Oh bell of my village, / Lazy in this peaceful afternoon, / Each one of your tollings / Resounds in my soul.

2. (Brazil) in particular, a tribal village; (historical) aldeia

Derived terms

• aldeado
• aldeamento
• aldeão
• aldear
• aldeiazinha (diminutive)
• aldeola
• aldeota

Further reading

• aldeia on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt