eido

13th century. Probably from Latin aditus (“entrance”), but compare Welsh eiddo (“property, belongings”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈejðo̝/

eido m (plural eidos)

1. dwelling, farmhouse, manor
   • 1288, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 195:

     aquele eydo en que ora uoſ morades

     that place where now ye dwell

   • 1797, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Máis garrida que a rosa no seu leito (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 19-20):

     Istaba a dona do meu amante peyto / Nó eydo di seu pay, no seu travallo

     The mistress of my loving breast was standing / by his father's home, in her work

   Synonyms: casa, lar

2. yards, gardens, terrains adjoining or inside the precinct of a house or group oh houses

   Synonyms: casal, quinteiro

   • 1399, Ermelindo Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 457:

     enno eydo de bragadela que esta ena dita filigresia tanbem casas et herdades segundo que esta enno chouso de bragadela çircundado

     in the place of Bragadela, which is in the aforementioned parish; also houses and properties as they are enclosed by the fence of Bragadela

3. patch of farmland

   Synonym: leira

4. (figurative, usually in the plural) homeland; place of origin

   Synonym: lar

5. (literary) scope, field

   Synonym: ámbito

• Eido
• Eido Vello
• Eidos

• eixido

• “eido” 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), “eido”, 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), “eido”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “eido”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN