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Pereira
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pereira
English
Etymology
en pt Pereira.
Proper noun
en.
Derived terms
en Pereira accounting
Galician
gl:
Etymology
At face value, from gl pereira pear tree. Alternatively, from gl la-med petraria, from la petra stone + la -aria.Pérez Capelo Carolina O sufixo diminutivo -ŎLA na toponimia galega / Diminutive suffix -ŎLA in Galician place names Guavira Letras 2017 25 132 http://websensors.net.br/seer/index.php/guavira/article/view/478 9 May 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20210105014454/http://websensors.net.br/seer/index.php/guavira/article/view/478 5 January 2021. For the evolution compare gl Pérez, a patronymical surname derived from la Petrus.
Pronunciation
gl /peˈɾejɾa̝/
Proper noun
f
A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia.
gl toponymical
References
"Pereira" in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
"Pereira" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :from pereira :der pedreira<id:quarry> 1
From pt pereira pear tree, or from a variant of pedreira (cf. Pero and Pedro). Compare es Perera and ca Perer.
Pronunciation
pt ejɾɐ ɐjɾɐ Portugal 3
pt pereira
pt Pe rei ra
Proper noun
mfbysense
pt
Descendants
tpw Perera 1
Spanish
Etymology
Named after Francisco Pereira Martínez.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es proper noun
es the <<capital city>> of <<dept/Antioquia>>, <<c/Colombia>>