sortero
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Old Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From suerte (“lot, fate”) + -ero (occupational suffix). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese sorteira (“witch”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sortero m (plural sorteros, feminine singular sortera, feminine plural sorteras)
- a person who draws lots, a soothsayer or oracle
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 32v:
- & fue demãdar cõſeio auna mugier ſortera q̃ era en edom […] ſta mugier ouo mẏedo al reẏ e dixo q̃ nõ faria.
- And [so] he went to seek counsel from a soothsayer that lived in Edom. […] [But] this woman was afraid of the king, and she said she would not do [as he asked].
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Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: sortero