seteira

Galician

Alternative forms

• sateira

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese saeteyra, seeteyra (attested since 1370). By surface analysis, seta (“arrow”) +‎ -eira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɛˈtejɾɐ]

Noun

seteira m (plural seteiras)

1. arrowslit
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa", page 595:

     os portaes erã fortes, et as entradas auesas, et as saeteyras moytas, et as arquetas moytas et de moytas guisas et per çima dos andámeos

     the gates were strong, and the entries unfavorable, and arrowslits many, and the bretèches many and made in many ways and upon the hoardings

   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua

     if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense

2. chute which in a watermill directs the water against the waterwheel

Related terms

• seta

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “saeteyra”, 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), “seeteyra”, 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), “sateira”, 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), “seteira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seteira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

From seta +‎ -eira.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [seˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈtɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈtej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈte.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: se‧tei‧ra

Noun

seteira f (plural seteiras)

1. loophole

Further reading

• “seteira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “seteira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025