agoiro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agoiro (13th c.), from Latin augurium. Cognate with Portuguese agoiro and Spanish agüero.

• IPA^(key): [aˈɣojɾo̝]

agoiro m (plural agoiros)

1. omen, presage
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:

     ¿Jdes catar agoyro hu nõ jaz senõ mẽtira?

     Are you going to see an omen where there is nothing but lies?

2. annoying person

• agoirar
• agoireiro
• agoirento

• “agoiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “agoyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “agoiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “agoiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “agoiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• agüiro
• agoyro, aguyro (spelling variants)

Inherited from Latin augurium, with metathesis. Cognate with Old Spanish aguero.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡojɾo/, /aˈɡujɾo/
• Rhymes: -ojɾo

agoiro m

1. omen, augury

• Galician: agoiro
• Portuguese: agoiro, agouro

• Universo Cantigas - "agoiro ~ agüiro"

• Hyphenation: a‧goi‧ro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agoiro, from Latin augurium. Doublet of augúrio, which was borrowed from Latin.

• agouro

agoiro m (plural agoiros)

1. omen, prophecy

• Often used in the context of predicting bad events.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

agoiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of agoirar