estreleiro

• estreleyro

Attested since circa 1300. From estrela (“star”) +‎ -eiro.

• IPA^(key): [estɾeˈlejɾʊ]

estreleiro m (plural estreleiros, feminine estreleira, feminine plural estreleiras)

1. (archaic, literary) astrologer, seer

   Synonyms: adiviño, astrólogo

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 264:

     os do Egyto, que eram moy grandes estreleyros et sabedores das naturas das cousas, adorauã oelamẽto da agoa et as planetas mays que aoutra cousa

     the [people] from Egypt, who were great astrologers and knowledgeable on the nature of things, adore the element of water and the planets more than any other thing

• estrela

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “estreleyro”, 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), “estreleyro”, 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), “estreleiro”, 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), “estreleiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega