liteira

In the sense given below, seemingly borrowed from Catalan llitera or French litière,^[1] both from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding”). Compare the synonymous Spanish litera, also borrowed from Gallo-Romance.

There also existed, however, a liteira (“bedding”) in thirteenth-century Old Galician-Portuguese,^[2] which might represent a direct inheritance of the Late Latin lectuāria.

• IPA^(key): [liˈtejɾɐ]

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter (platform mounted on two shafts, used for the human-powered transportation of people)
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     E se eu fora sua Ama,
     que de regalos comera
     e mais avia d'andar
     metida nunha Liteyra.

     If I was her milkmaid
     so many delicatessens I would eat
     and I would go around
     inside a litter

• leito

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “liteyra”, 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), “liteira”, 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), “liteira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ

• Hyphenation: li‧tei‧ra

See Galician liteira above.

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter (bed, couch, or chair elevated on poles and carried as a mode of transport)

• palanquim (Asian)

• leito

From English litter, q.v.

liteira f (plural liteiras)

1. litter box

   Synonym: caixa de areia

2. pet carrier

• “liteira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025