oliveira

Attested since the 14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, but influenced by a Mozarabic form; ultimately from Latin [arbor] olīvāria, from olīva (“an olive”).

• IPA^(key): [oliˈβejɾɐ]

oliveira f (plural oliveiras)

1. olive tree

• O Ivedo ( < Olivetum)
• oliva

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “oliueira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “oliueira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “oliveira”, 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), “oliveira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “oliveira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

 

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Learned borrowing from Latin [arbor] olīvāria,^[1][2][3] from olīva (“olive”). By surface analysis, oliva (“olive”) +‎ -eira.

• Homophone: Oliveira
• Hyphenation: o‧li‧vei‧ra

oliveira f (plural oliveiras)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: oliva

• oliveiral