senlleiro

Galician

Alternative forms

• cenlleiro, cinlleiro, señeiro, sinlleiro

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese senlleiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *sing(u)lāriu(s) (“single, peculiar; singular”), from Latin singulāris. Cognate with Portuguese senheiro and Spanish señero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /senˈʎejɾo̝/

Adjective

senlleiro (feminine senlleira, masculine plural senlleiros, feminine plural senlleiras)

1. (of cows or mares) non pregnant
2. (of cows or mares) sterile

   Synonyms: estéril, maniño

3. (now literary) alone; single; solitary
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:

     Et semellaua que o paaço estaua senlleyro, ca home que y estouesse nõ dezía palaura.

     And it seemed as if the palace was alone, because any man who was there said no word

   • 1922, A. Cotarelo Valledor, Trebón:

     D. Andrés: «Moi fondo caíches.» Manoel (Arrogante): «Ou moi alto ¿qué sabes ti? Un home señeiro en terra allea, sin cartos nin poder, axexado decote, decote corrido, en loita fera con xusticias e con leises, co'esas leises, que facedes vós que o tedes todo: pan, casa, lume e amor.»

     Don Andrés: «You fell very deep.» Manuel (haughtily): «Or very high, what do you know? A estranger [lit. man alone] in a strange land, out of money or power, watched all the time, all the time driven out, fighting a fierce fight with justices and laws, with that laws you make, the ones who have everything: bread, home, light, love.»

4. (formal) singular, remarkable

Related terms

• senllos
• sinxelo

References

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

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• senneiro

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sing(u)lāriu(s), from Latin singulāris (“alone, singular”).

Cognate with Old Spanish sennero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sẽ.ˈʎej.ɾo/

Adjective

senlleiro

1. alone, unique
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 90 (facsimile):

     Sola fuſti, ſenlleira.

     You were alone among women.

2. single
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 369 (facsimile):

     non he mais dũ ſenlleiro

     It's just a single (fish)

Synonyms

• (alone): soo

Descendants

• Galician: senlleiro, señeiro
• Portuguese: senheiro