Noun: laceira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | laceira |
| Plural f | laceiras |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like laceira
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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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