madeira

madeira (countable and uncountable, plural madeiras)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”)

• Demaria, Maredia

• maeira (Mañegu)
• meira (Lagarteiru)

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdei̯ɾa/
• Rhymes: -ei̯ɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧dei‧ra

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. (Valverdeñu) wood

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

< Madeira

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdei̯rɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝de̞i̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑdeirɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧dei‧ra

madeira

1. Madeira (fortified wine produced on Madeira)

   Synonym: madeiraviini

• “madeira”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin materia. Cf. also materia.

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. wood

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ
• Homophone: Madeira
• Hyphenation: ma‧dei‧ra

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Cognates with Galician madeira and Spanish madera. Doublet of matéria, a borrowing.

• madeyra (obsolete)

madeira f (plural madeiras)

1. (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)

   Synonyms: lenha, lenho, pau

2. wood (the wood of a particular species of tree)

   Synonym: pau

3. a piece of timber

   Synonym: pau

4. (music, usually in the plural) woodwind instrument

madeira!

1. timber!; used by lumberjacks to warn others when a tree is falling down

Shortening of vinho da Madeira (literally “wine of Madeira”), after the Portuguese island of Madeira.

• Madeira

madeira m (uncountable)

1. a type of fortified wine produced in the island of Madeira

   Synonyms: vinho da Madeira, vinho Madeira

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

madeira

1. inflection of madeirar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• madeira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• madeiras on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• vinho da Madeira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt