Noun: peneira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | peneira |
| Plural f | peneiras |
Sample Sentences
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It. hua peneyra vella (Item, an old sieve) [1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 342:]
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1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a (A sack full of wheat flour, three sieves, a heap of chestnuts, two goatskins)
Nouns inflected like peneira
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
13th century. From Vulgar Latin *pinnaria, from Latin pinna (“feather”). Note that medieval Galician pena meant "pelt". Cognate with Portuguese peneira and Asturian peñera. See: Latin Nouns '
penna', Portuguese Nouns '
peneira', Asturian Nouns '
peñera'.
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