# seara
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* senra

### Etymology

See senra

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seˈaɾa̝/

### Noun

seara f (plural searas)
* communal terrain, usually left fallow, undivided and covered by bushes, which is eventually grazed and plowed for the temporal production of rye or wheat; swidden
    Synonyms: cavada, estivada, roza
* cornfield
* (dated) day labor
** 1303, 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 150:
    Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar
       You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

#### Derived terms

* Seara
* seareiro

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “seara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “seara”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seara”, 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), “seara”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seara”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* senra

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽara, from Iberian Vulgar Latin senara, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *senara (“piece of land cultivated on the side”), from *sen- (“separation”) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + *aryeti (“to plow”).
Cognate with Galician seara, senra, Mirandese senara, Asturian senra and Spanish serna.

### Pronunciation

* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsja.ɾɐ/
* Homophone: ceara
* Rhymes: -aɾɐ
* Hyphenation: se‧a‧ra

### Noun

seara f (plural searas)
* cornfield
* tilled land
* harvest

### Further reading

* “seara”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
* “seara”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
* “seara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “seara”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
* “seara”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
* “seara”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

## Romanian
### Etymology

From seară +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈse̯ara/

### Adverb

seara
* in the evening
* every evening

#### See also

* dimineața
* după-amiaza
* noaptea
* ziua

### Noun

seara
* definite nominative/accusative singular of seară