treito

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese treito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahō (“I drag; extract”). Cognate with Spanish trecho.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾejto̝/

Noun

treito m (plural treitos)

1. distance, stretch, extension (in space or time)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 431:

     mays pero os troyãos forõ ende maltreytos et alongados do cãpo per força ben dous treytos de beesta.

     but the Trojans were then battered and forcibly repelled for the distance of two shots of crossbow.

2. way, trail, walk
3. frame of a roof

Synonyms

• (stretch): tramo
• (way): traxecto

Related terms

• traer (“to bring”)
• treita (“a strip of land”)
• treitoira (“pegs which secure the axis of the wheels of a cart to the cart itself”)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “treito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “treyto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “treito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “treito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “treito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “traer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos