teito

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teito m (plural teitos)

1. roof

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “teito”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese teito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tēctum, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover with a roof”). Cognate with Portuguese teto and Spanish techo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtejto̝/

teito m (plural teitos)

1. ceiling (the upper part of a cavity or room)
2. roof (the cover at the top of a building)
   • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 60:

     Jtem hũa cassa ẽna rrúa da Fonte da Rreýna que sson tres cassas so hũu teyto

     Item, a house in Queen's Fountain Street, that are three houses [sic] under a roof

   Synonyms: lousado, tellado

teito m (feminine singular teita, masculine plural teitos, feminine plural teitas)

1. having a roof

• Fonteita, place name, lit. "Roofed Fountain"
• teitar (“to roof”)
• teito da boca (“palate”)

• “teito” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “teyt” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “teito” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “teito” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “teito” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Asturian and Leonese teitu. Doublet of techo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteito/ [ˈt̪ei̯.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eito
• Syllabification: tei‧to

teito m (plural teitos)

1. (Asturias, León) dwelling with a thatched roof
2. the thatched roof itself