laceira

laceira

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese lazeyra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin *lacĕrĭa, from Latin lacer (“torn to pieces”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂k- (“to tear, rend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈθɛjɾa̝/

Noun

laceira f (plural laceiras)

1. misery (extreme poverty)
   • 1886, José Pérez Ballesteros, Biblioteca de las tradiciones populares españolas

     Paséi pol-a tua porta, non che vin palla n-a eira, nin che coidéi, rapaciña, que tiñas tanta laceira (popular song)

     I passed in front of your door, and didn't see straw in the threshing place; I had never thought that you had so much misery

2. misery (great unhappiness, wretchedness)
   • 1295, Lorenzo, Ramón (ed.) La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla.. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 535:

     cobijçauã mays a morte ca a vida cõ tã grã lazeira

     they coveted death more than life, so large was their affliction

Derived terms

• laceirar
• Laceiras

References

• “lazeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lazeyra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “laceira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “laceira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “laceira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.