laceira – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of laceira

Noun: laceira
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular flaceira
Plural flaceiras

Sample Sentences

  • Paséi pol-a tua porta, non che vin palla n-a eira, nin che coidéi, rapaciña, que tiñas tanta laceira (popular song) (I passed in front of your door, and didn't see straw in the threshing place; I had never thought that you had so much misery) [1886, José Pérez Ballesteros, Biblioteca de las tradiciones populares españolas:]
  • cobijçauã mays a morte ca a vida cõ tã grã lazeira (they coveted death more than life, so large was their affliction) [1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla., Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 535:]

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lazeyra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin *lacĕrĭa, from Latin lacer (“torn to pieces”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂k- (“to tear, rend”). See: Latin Nouns 'lacer'.

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