teor

teor

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Latin tenor. Cognate with Portuguese teor and Spanish tenor. Doublet of tenor (“tenor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈoɾ/

Noun

teor m (plural teores)

1. content of a document
   • 1357, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.) , A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 87:

     mostrou e feso leer por min dito notario, ao dito Andreu Sanches, endeantado, hun escripto de protestaçón, do qual o theor tal est: [...]

     he shew and ordained to read, by me the aforementioned notary, to the aforementioned Andreu Sánchez, governor, a protest document, which content is this: [...]

2. kind, type

   Synonym: índole

References

• “teor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “teor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “teor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tenor, tenōrem. Doublet of tenor (“tenor”), which was borrowed from Italian.

Noun

teor m (plural teores)

1. content
2. kind, type
   • 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço:

     Era um pobre-diabo caminhando para os setenta anos, antipático, cabelo branco, curto e duro, como escova, barba e bigode do mesmo teor […]

     He was a poor devil reaching his seventy years, unlikable, his hair was white, short and thick, like a brush, beard and mustache of the same kind […]

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:teor.

Related terms

• ter