eirado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eirado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from eira (“threshing floor”) +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ejˈɾaðo̝/

Noun

eirado m (plural eirados)

1. grain extended over the threshing floor in preparation for threshing
2. homestead

   Synonyms: casal, eido

3. square, plaza (in a hamlet)
   • 1339, M. Lucas Alvarez; P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 488:

     do outro cabo parten per la callela que uen do Penedo pera as cassas do abbade de Cellanoua et entesta en o eirado dante a torre do conçello

     on the other extreme they depart from the alley that comes from Penedo to the houses of the abbot of Celanova, and ends in the plaza before the council's tower

   Synonym: quinteiro

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “eirado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “eirado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “eirado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “eirado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “eirado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN