Noun: sorteira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | sorteira |
| Plural f | sorteiras |
Sample Sentences
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Eſte […] foi pedir a conſſello a hũa uella Sorteira. (This [man] […] sought advice from an old fortuneteller.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 128 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/259small.gif] facsimile])]
Nouns inflected like sorteira
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From sorte (“fate, fortune”) + -eiro (feminine occupational suffix). Compare Old Spanish sortero (“soothsayer”). See: Old Spanish Nouns '
sortero'.
Verbs referencing "sorteira"
Galician Nouns
sorteira, Old Spanish Nouns
sortero.
Translations