alumear

• alumar
• alumiar (reintegrationist)

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese alumẽar, from Early Medieval Latin allūmināre. Compare Portuguese alumiar, Spanish alumbrar.

• IPA^(key): /alumeˈaɾ/ [a.lu.meˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧lu‧me‧ar

alumear (first-person singular present alumeo, first-person singular preterite alumeei, past participle alumeado)
alumear (first-person singular present alumeio, first-person singular preterite alumeei, past participle alumeado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to illuminate, enlighten
   • 1697, José Gil Taboada, Grande loita de luceiros:

     Grande loyta de Luceyros
     Ay na terra do patron
     Santo, que fillo do Trono
     Nas guerras sempre atronòu.
     Cinco Luceyros no'menos
     S'opòn à vn Luceyro sò:
     Cinco à vn, è ser Galegos?
     No'mo dà ò corazon.
     E que loytan sobre quen
     A quen mais alomeou.
     Vn contra cinco? Este si
     Que é Galego de naçon.

     A large dispute of luminaries
     happens at the land of the patron
     Saint, who, son of thunder
     In the wars always stormed [=Saint James].
     Five luminaries, no less,
     Oppose one luminary alone:
     Five to one, being Galicians?
     I don't think so.
     And they are fighting on who
     enlightened more to whom.
     One to five? This one certainly is
     Galician by nation

2. (transitive) to clarify
3. (transitive) to shed light on
4. (intransitive) to light
5. (intransitive) to be perceptible
6. (pronominal) to receive or use the light [with con ‘of something’]

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “alumear”, 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), “alumear”, 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), “alumear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “alumear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “alumear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “alumear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN