nuviléro

Macanese

Alternative forms

• noviléro, novilêro, (archaic) novileiro

Etymology

Possibly from Portuguese novilheiro (“calf-fighter”) (cf. Spanish novillero), with a semantic shift due to Portuguese novidade (“news”) and more distantly Latin novellus (“new; novel”). By surface analysis, Portuguese novo +‎ -éro.

Pronunciation

• nuviléro: IPA^(key): /nu.viˈlɛ.ɾu/
• noviléro, novilêro: IPA^(key): /nɔ.viˈlɛ.ɾu/, /nu.viˈlɛ.ɾu/

Noun

nuviléro

1. person who likes to spread and know about news
2. troublemaker

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “novileiro”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 495
• https://dicionario.priberam.org/novilheiro
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#nuvilero