Pereira
See also: pereira
English
Proper noun
Pereira
- A surname.
Derived terms
- Pereira accounting
Galician
Etymology
At face value, from pereira (“pear tree”). Alternatively, from Medieval Latin petraria, from petra (“stone”) + -aria.[1] For the evolution compare Pérez, a patronymical surname derived from Petrus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈɾejɾa̝/
Proper noun
Pereira f
- A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia.
- a toponymical surname
References
- "Pereira" in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- "Pereira" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
- Pérez Capelo, Carolina (2017), “O sufixo diminutivo -ŎLA na toponimia galega / Diminutive suffix -ŎLA in Galician place names”, in Guavira Letras, issue 25, retrieved 9 May 2018, page 132.
Portuguese
Etymology
From pereira (“pear tree”), or from a variant of pedreira (cf. Pero and Pedro). Compare Spanish Perera and Catalan Perer.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈɾe(j).ɾɐ/ [peˈɾe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈɾe(j).ɾa/ [peˈɾe(ɪ̯).ɾa]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈɾɐj.ɾɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈɾej.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈɾe.ɾɐ/
- Homophone: pereira
- Hyphenation: Pe‧rei‧ra
Proper noun
Pereira m or f by sense
- a toponymic surname
Spanish
Etymology
Named after Francisco Pereira Martínez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈɾeiɾa/ [peˈɾei̯.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -eiɾa
- Syllabification: Pe‧rei‧ra
Proper noun
Pereira
- the capital city of Antioquia department, Colombia