candeeiro

Attested since the 13th century: candea +‎ -eiro. Compare Portuguese candeeiro and Spanish candelero.

• IPA^(key): /kandeˈejɾo/ [kɑn̪.d̪eˈej.ɾʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ejɾo
• IPA^(key): /kanˈdjejɾo/ [kɑn̪ˈd̪jej.ɾʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ejɾo
• Hyphenation: can‧de‧ei‧ro

candeeiro m (plural candeeiros)

1. candle holder, candlestick
   • 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. D40a:

     Iten dous candeiros de ferro, hun rello de rellar pan, hun qestella de mantees cobertoyras

     Item, two iron candlesticks, a scrapper for bread, a basket with tablecloths

2. lamp
   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:

     Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello

     I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come swiftly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooling, he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel

3. (figurative) leg

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “candeeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “candeeyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “candeeiro”, 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), “candeeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “candeeiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• candieiro (pre-standardization spelling)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese candeeiro (“candelabrum”), from Vulgar Latin *candelārius.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: can‧de‧ei‧ro

candeeiro m (plural candeeiros)

1. sconce, lamp, torch
2. oil lamp (lamp using oil as fuel)

   Synonym: lampião

   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Sinha Victoria”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 57:

     Para bem dizer, não se accendiam candieiros na casa.

     Strictly speaking, no lamps were lit in the house.

3. (Portugal) street lamp (large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area)

• candeeirinho (diminutive), candeeirozinho (diminutive)

• candeia
• candela
• candelabro
• candelária
• candeliça

• lâmpada

• “candeeiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “candeeiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026