monteira

Galician

Musicians wearing traditional monteiras

Old man wearing a monteira

Etymology

From monte (“hill, woodland, wild”) +‎ -eira. Cognate with Spanish montera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [monˈtejɾɐ]

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

1. traditional pronged Galician cap or hat wore by men, and whose design traditionally revealed the geographic origin of the user
   • 1820, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Os servís e os liberás:

     Palurdos que vos vestides,
     Como eu, de sayo de lá,
     Polainas, zocos, monteira,
     E un bo baloco na man

     Rustics that wear,
     as myself, with a woolen robe,
     gaiters, clogs, cap
     and a good staff in hand

See also

• monteira on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “monteira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “monteira”, 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), “monteira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “monteira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾa/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mõˈte.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: mon‧tei‧ra

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

1. female equivalent of monteiro