peneira
Galician
Alternative forms
- pineira
Etymology
13th century. From Vulgar Latin *pinnaria, from Latin pinna (“feather”).[1] Note that medieval Galician pena meant "pelt". Cognate with Portuguese peneira and Asturian peñera.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈnejɾa̝/
Noun
peneira f (plural peneiras)
- sieve usually used to sift flour
- 1402, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 342:
- It. hua peneyra vella
- Item, an old sieve
- It. hua peneyra vella
- 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:
- Hun saco cheo de farina triiga, tres peneyras, hun restrello, dous odres
- A sack full of wheat flour, three sieves, a heap of chestnuts, two goatskins
- Hun saco cheo de farina triiga, tres peneyras, hun restrello, dous odres
- Synonyms: criba, baruto, bortel, xirgo
- 1402, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 342:
- abalone, ear shell
- Synonym: orella de mar
Derived terms
- peneirar (“to sieve”)
Related terms
- pena (“pelt”)
References
- “peneyra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “peneyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “peneira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “peneira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “peneira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. peneira.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈne(j).ɾɐ/ [peˈne(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈne(j).ɾa/ [peˈne(ɪ̯).ɾa]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈnɐj.ɾɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈnej.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈne.ɾɐ/
- Hyphenation: pe‧nei‧ra
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin pānāria, feminine of pānārium (“breadbasket”).
Noun
peneira f (plural peneiras)
- sieve (device to separate larger objects)
- Synonyms: coador, crivo, joeira
- (figurative) something which selects the best and filters out the rest
Derived terms
- tapar o sol com a peneira
Related terms
- peneiração
- peneirada
- peneirado
- peneirador
- peneiragem
- peneiramento
- peneirar
- peneireiro
- peneiro
Descendants
- Kadiwéu: beneela
Verb
peneira
- inflection of peneirar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative