Noun: feira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | feira |
| Plural f | feiras |
Sample Sentences
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ordenavan que a dita feyra de San Martiño que fose franca da mañán luns, que serán quatorse dias deste dito ano, ata quinse dias primeiro segentes, et en estes quinse días que todas las personas et mercadores et outras quaes quer personas, asy da çidade como de fora parte, que non pagasen de quaes quer mercadorías conprasen et vendesen mays que de cada çen mrs, hun mr, et de mill mrs, des mrs (they ordered that said fair of Saint Martin to be tax-free from tomorrow Monday, fourteen days of this year [sic], for fifteen next days, and that these fifteen days that every person and merchant and any other person, either from the city as from the outside, must pay for any goods that they happen to buy or sell just a maravedi for each a hundred maravedis, and for a thousand maravedis, ten maravedis) [1457, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 153:]
Nouns inflected like feira
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
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese feira, from Late Latin feria (“festival, holiday”), from Latin feriae, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”).
2. Cognate with Portuguese feira, Spanish feria, French foire, Italian fiera,
3. Sicilian fera and English fair. See: Latin Nouns '
feriae', Portuguese Nouns '
feira', Spanish Nouns '
feria', French Nouns '
foire', Italian Nouns '
fiera', English Nouns '
fair'.
Verbs referencing "feira"
Portuguese Nouns
feira.
Translations