vieira

• aviñeira

From Old Galician/Old Portuguese *vẽeyra, from Medieval Latin conchula veneria ("shell of Venus"), from Latin Venus.

• IPA^(key): /biˈejɾa̝/

vieira f (plural vieiras)

1. great scallop, St James shell (Pecten Maximus)
   • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 gallegos rústicos:

     O noso patrón, santiño ben feito, da barba dourada, que está no seu eido sentado e vestido cal fora romeiro, con súa escraviña e co seu chapeo que ten muitas conchas só do mar do reino, conchiñas vieiras abondo e a desexo

     Our patron, such a handsomely built saint, with his golden beard, who sits in his place dressed as a pilgrim, with his cape and his hat which have many shell, but just from the sea of the kingdom [of Galicia], scallop shells enough and as many as you would like

• Spanish: vieira

• “vieira” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “vieira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vieira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vieira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese vẽeira, from Medieval Latin veneria, from Latin Venus.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vi.ˈe(j).ɾa/, /vi.ˈe(j).ɾɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvjɐj.ɾɐ/, /ˈvjej.ɾɐ/
• Homophone: Vieira
• Hyphenation: vi‧ei‧ra

vieira f (plural vieiras)

1. scallop (mollusc of the family Pectinidae)

Borrowed from Galician vieira.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjeiɾa/, [ˈbjei̯ɾa]

vieira f (plural vieiras)

1. scallop

   Synonym: venera

• “vieira” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.