madeira (countable and uncountable, plural madeiras)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”).

• Demaria, Maredia

• maeira (Mañegu)
• meira (Lagarteiru)

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdei̯ɾa/
• Rhymes: -ei̯ɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧dei‧ra

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. (Valverdeñu) wood

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 192

< Madeira

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdei̯rɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝de̞i̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑdeirɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧dei‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧dei‧ra

madeira

1. Madeira (fortified wine produced on Madeira)

   Synonym: madeiraviini

• “madeira”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin materia. Cf. also materia.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdejɾa/ [mɐˈð̞ej.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -ejɾa
• Hyphenation: ma‧dei‧ra

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. (uncountable) wood (material)

   Hoxe aquel recuncho cerca Unha reixa de madeira.

   Today that corner is surrounded by a fence of wood.

• “madeira”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “madeira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “madeira”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “madeira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “madeira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ
• Homophone: Madeira
• Hyphenation: ma‧dei‧ra

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matéria, a learned borrowing. Cognates include Galician madeira and Spanish madera.

• madeyra (obsolete)

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)

   Synonyms: lenha, lenho, pau

2. wood (the wood of a particular species of tree)

   Synonym: pau

3. a piece of timber

   Synonym: pau

4. (music, usually in the plural) woodwind instrument

madeira!

1. timber!; used by lumberjacks to warn others when a tree is falling down

Shortening of vinho da Madeira (literally “wine of Madeira”), after the Portuguese island of Madeira.

• Madeira

madeira m (uncountable)

1. a type of fortified wine produced in the island of Madeira

   Synonyms: vinho da Madeira, vinho Madeira

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

madeira

1. inflection of madeirar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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• “madeira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “madeira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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