porreta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porreta. By surface analysis, porro +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): /poˈreta/ [poˈre.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta

porreta f (plural porretas)

1. spring onion

   Synonyms: ceboliño, porreto

2. sprout

   Synonym: porreto

3. corn leaf

   Synonym: follato

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “porreta”, 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), “porreta”, 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), “porreta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porreta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

porreta f (plural porretas)

1. leaves (at the tip of certain vegetables)

porreta m or f by sense (plural porretas)

1. (informal) stoner (someone who regular smokes marijuana)

• en porretas; en porreta; en porreta picada

• “porreta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025