espadeiro

Attested since circa 1295 (espadeyro). From espada (“sword”) +‎ -eiro, and Late Latin spatharius (“bodyguard”), from Latin spatha.

espadeiro m (plural espadeiros)

(historical) king's bodyguard, spatharius
- c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 900:
  auya hũ home boo ẽnas Asturas et auia nume don Payo, et ffora espadeyro del rrey Rrodrigo
  there was a good man in Asturias, whose name was Pelagius, who had been bodyguard of king Roderic
swordmaker
- 1488, M. Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 353:
  G(om)es A(lvar)es sarraleyro e Pero Fernandes espadeyro vesinnos da dita cidade
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
local variety of black grape
fishing boat specialized in the capture of swordfish

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “espadeyro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “espadeyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espadeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “espadeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espadeiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Galician