agoiro

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese agoyro, from Latin augurium. Cognate with Portuguese agouro and Spanish agüero.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɣojɾo̝/

agoiro m (plural agoiros)

1. omen, presage
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:

     ¿Jdes catar agoyro hu nõ jaz senõ mẽtira?

     Are you going to see an omen where there is nothing but lies?

2. annoying person

• agoirar
• agoireiro
• agoirento

• “agoiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “agoyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “agoiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “agoiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “agoiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

agoiro m

1. Alternative spelling of agoyro

• agouro

From Old Galician-Portuguese agoiro~agoyro, from Vulgar Latin agurium, from Latin augurium. Doublet of augúrio, which was borrowed from Latin.

• Hyphenation: a‧goi‧ro

agoiro m (plural agoiros)

1. omen, prophecy

• Often used in the context of predicting bad events.