-eiro
See also: eiro
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese -eiro, from Latin -ārius and -ārium, with metathesis of "i" (through a Vulgar Latin form *-airu). Compare Portuguese -eiro, Spanish -ero.
Suffix
-eiro
- forms nouns from nouns or verbs, denoting someone who works with the suffixed noun or engages in the suffixed verb; -er; -eer
- xardín (“garden”) + -eiro → xardineiro (“gardener”)
- forms nouns, from nouns denoting a location or type of location, meaning “someone from the location” and adjectives meaning “of, from or related to the location”
- costa (“coast”) + -eiro → costeiro (“of the coast; someone who lives by the coast”)
- forms nouns from the names of fruits or other plant products, denoting the plant bearing them, usually trees and shrubs
- pexego (“peach fruit”) + -eiro → pexegueiro (“peach tree”)
Derived terms
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
- -eyro (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Portuguese -eiro, from Latin -ārius and -ārium, with metathesis of "i" (through a Vulgar Latin form *-airu). Compare Galician -eiro, Spanish -ero. Doublet of the borrowed suffix -ário.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɐjru/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe(j)ɾu/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe(j)ɾo/
Suffix
-eiro m (feminine -eira, plural -eiros, feminine plural -eiras)
- forms nouns from nouns or verbs, denoting someone who works with the suffixed noun or engages in the suffixed verb; -er; -eer
- cozinha (“kitchen”) + -eiro → cozinheiro (“cook”)
- aventura (“adventure”) + -eiro → aventureiro (“adventurer”)
- companhia (“company”) + -eiro → companheiro (“companion”)
- Synonyms: -ário, -dor, -ista
- forms nouns, from nouns denoting a location or type of location, meaning “someone from the location” and adjectives meaning “of, from or related to the location”
- Brasil (“Brazil”) + -eiro → brasileiro (“Brazilian”)
- costa (“coast”) + -eiro → costeiro (“of the coast; someone who lives by the coast”)
- Synonyms: -ano, -ão, -ense, -ês, -iço
- forms nouns from the names of fruits or other plant products, denoting the plant bearing them, usually trees and shrubs
- pêssego (“peach fruit”) + -eiro → pessegueiro (“peach tree”)
- rosa (“rose”) + -eira → roseira (“rosebush”)
- Synonym: pé-de-
- (usually feminine) forms nouns, from nouns or adjectives, denoting a state, property or quality of being the suffixed adjective or having the suffixed noun; -ity, -ness
- sujo (“filthy”) + -eira → sujeira (“filth”)
- besta (“foolish”) + -eira → besteira (“foolery”)
- nojo (“disgust”) + -eira → nojeira (“something disgusting”)
- Synonyms: -eza, -ice, -ície
- forms nouns, from nouns, denoting a place where there is plenty of the suffixed noun
- lama (“mud”) + -eiro → lameiro (“place with a lot of mud”)
- Synonym: -al
- forms nouns, from verbs, denoting a place where the suffixed verb is likely to occur
- atolar (“to bog down”) + -eiro → atoleiro (“place where vehicles bog down frequently”)
- Synonym: -douro
- forms the names of trees, often synonyms
- carvalho (“oak”) + -eira → carvalheira (“English oak”)
- azinho (“holm oak”) + -eira → azinheira (“holm oak”)
- pinho (“pine tree”) + -eiro → pinheiro (“pine tree”)
- forms nouns from nouns, denoting a container for the suffixed noun
- lápis (“pencil”) + -eiro → lapiseiro (“pencil case”)
- sal (“salt”) + -eiro → saleiro (“salt cellar”)
- forms adjectives meaning “which transports the suffixed noun”, and nouns meaning “a ship which transports the suffixed noun”
- carga (“cargo; load”) + -eiro → cargueiro (“which transports cargo”)
- navio (“ship”) + negro (“black person”) + -eiro → navio-negreiro (“slave ship”)
- petróleo (“petroleum”) + -eiro → petroleiro (“oil tanker”)
- forms nouns, from the name of a drug, denoting someone who is addicted to the drug; -head
- maconha (“marijuana”) + -eiro → maconheiro (“stoner; pothead”)
- forms nouns and adjectives, from nouns, denoting a fan of the suffixed noun
- metal (“heavy metal”) + -eiro → metaleiro (“metalhead”)
- novela (“soap opera”) + -eiro → noveleiro (“fan of soap operas”)
Related terms
- -ário