monteira

Galician
Musicians wearing traditional monteiras
Old man wearing a monteira

Etymology

From monte (“hill, woodland, wild”) +‎ -eira. Cognate with Spanish montera.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [monˈtejɾɐ]

Noun

monteira f (plural monteiras)

  1. traditional pronged Galician cap or hat wore by men, and whose design traditionally revealed the geographic origin of the user
    • 1820, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Os servís e os liberás:
      Palurdos que vos vestides,
      Como eu, de sayo de lá,
      Polainas, zocos, monteira,
      E un bo baloco na man
      Rustics that wear,
      as myself, with a woolen robe,
      gaiters, clogs, cap
      and a good staff in hand

See also

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

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation
     
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
      • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /mõˈte(j).ɾa/ [mõˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]
     

    • Hyphenation: mon‧tei‧ra

    Noun

    monteira f (plural monteiras)

    1. female equivalent of monteiro
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