tebras

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese tẽevras (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tenebrae, tenebrās. Cognate with Portuguese trevas and Spanish tinieblas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛβɾa̝s/

Noun

tebras f pl (plural only)

1. darkness, absence of light
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 679:

     Senor, pela tua morte somos liures da grande escuridade et teeura en que eramos, porlo pecado de nossos primeyros padres

     Lord, by your dead we are free of the big obscurity and darkness where we were because of the sin of our first parents

2. (figurative) solitude, isolation
3. (figurative) ignorance

Usage notes

• Normally used in plural; however, the standard Dicionario da Real Academia Galega provides the lemma tebra in singular.

See also

• negror

References

• “teeura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “teebras” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tebra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tebra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.