terzo

From Old Galician-Portuguese terço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tertius (“third”). Cognate with Portuguese terço and Spanish tercio.

(historical, military) tercio (a type of military formation used in the early modern age)


cámara

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

der

(firearms) the area holding the ammunition round

chamber
the area holding the ammunition round


azul

From Old Galician-Portuguese azur (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

rreluzíã cõtra o ssol os escudos, que erã pintados de ouro et de azur

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 308:

the shields, painted in gold and azure, glittered against the sun


garda

From Old Galician-Portuguese guarda, probably a back-formation from gardar.


banda

14th century. From Old French bande, bende, from Frankish *bindā, bindu, from Proto-Germanic *bindō (“band”).

c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 129

Pytagoras was a very good knight and very valiant, and he was wearing a shield of silver and red, with traversal bands

Pytagoras era moy bõo caualeyro et moy ardido, et tragia hũ escudo de argẽte et de vermello cõ bandas ao traues


barra

From Vulgar Latin barra, perhaps from Gaulish. Doublet of bar.


campo

From Old Galician-Portuguese campo, from Latin campus. Compare Portuguese and Spanish campo.

en meogo do escudo, en que tragía hũa agia d'ouro et o canpo uerde

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:

in the middle of the shield, where it had a golden eagle on green field


cruz

From Old Galician-Portuguese cruz, from Latin crux, crucem (“cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).


PT

Partido da Terra
Partido da Terra#Galician

(politics, historical) initialism of Partido da Terra


trono

Attested since 1370 (trõo). From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Portuguese trom), from Latin tonus (“thunderclap; sound, tone”) (probably through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, with influence from tonitrus).

inh

Hũu trono cõ seu serujdor e hũu fole de póluora

1457, Fernando Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 171:

A bombard with its server and a bag of powder


tropa

Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.

a meu yrmaõ Jeronimo frde de ponteuedra, vn alcalde que foy da bila mesma, passando as tropas dos soldados, lle a feyto vma senjustiça tocandolle na onrra, que he coussa para a cassa de meu pay de moita estima

1603, Rosario Álvarez, edited by Ernesto González, Cartas a Conde de Gondomar:

to my brother Xerónimo Fernández de Pontevedra, a later alderman of this same town while reviewing the soldiers' troops made him an injustice, touching him in his honor, which is a thing of great value for my father's house


brigada

(military) brigade (military unit composed of several regiments)


chave

From Old Galician-Portuguese chave (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin clāvis, clāvem.

(wrestling) hold (position or grip used to control the opponent)


torre

From Old Galician-Portuguese torre, from Latin turris, turrem (“tower”), borrowed from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis).

(architecture, military) stronghold, keep, tower house


infante

gl-noun

infante m (plural infantes, feminine infanta, feminine plural infantas)

infantes (plural)
infanta (feminine)
infantas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese infante, a borrowing from Latin īnfantem (“infant”). Cognate with Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian infante, French enfant.


esquerdo

gl-adj

esquerdo (feminine esquerda, masculine plural esquerdos, feminine plural esquerdas)

esquerda (feminine)
esquerdos (masculine plural)
esquerdas (feminine plural)

Attested since the 13th century. Either from Basque ezker (“left”), or both from Paleo-Hispanic. Compare Spanish izquierdo and Catalan esquerra.


compañía

compañías (plural)
companhia (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese companhia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French companie, from Vulgar Latin *compania. Doublet of compaña.
Cognate with Portuguese companhia and Spanish compañía.


cabo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabo, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head, source”).

(military) corporal (non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4)


recruta

gl-noun

recruta m or f by sense (plural recrutas)

(military) recruit (a newly enlisted soldier)


conservador

gl-adj

conservador (feminine conservadora, masculine plural conservadores, feminine plural conservadoras)

conservadora (feminine)
conservadores (masculine plural)
conservadoras (feminine plural)

(politics) conservative (supporting or relating to conservatism)


paracaidista

gl-noun

paracaidista m or f by sense (plural paracaidistas)


trevo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *trifŏlum, from Latin trifolium (“trefoil, clover”), from tria (“three”) + folium (“leaf”).


antiglobalista

antiglobalista m or f by sense (plural antiglobalistas)

(politics) antiglobalist, anti-globalization (a proponent of antiglobalism)


antidemocrático

gl-adj

antidemocrático (feminine antidemocrática, masculine plural antidemocráticos, feminine plural antidemocráticas)

antidemocrática (feminine)
antidemocráticos (masculine plural)
antidemocráticas (feminine plural)


progresista

progresista m or f (plural progresistas)

(politics) progressive, progressist, progressionist


progresista

gl-noun

progresista m or f by sense (plural progresistas)

(politics) progressive, progressist, progressionist (person)


tecnocracia

(politics) technocracy (system of government in which the technocrats have power)


ministrable

gl-adj

ministrable m or f (plural ministrables)

ministrables (plural)
ministrábel (alternative)


faixa

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin fascia (“strip, ribbon”). Cognate with Portuguese faixa, Spanish faja and Catalan faixa.


monocolor

monocolores (plural)
monocor (alternative)


besteiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese baesteiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ballistarius.

Et ena vila auia moytos boos beesteyros, que du elles feriã nõ tĩjna prol escudo nẽ outra arma

1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 323:

In this town there were many good crossbowmen, and where they hit, the shield or other weapons were useless


troneira

troneiras (plural)
torneira (alternative)

(architecture, military) embrasure, crenel (indentation between the merlons of a battlement)


esquerdista

gl-noun

esquerdista m or f by sense (plural esquerdistas)

(person, politics) left-winger, leftist (a person who belongs to the political left; a member of the left wing of a party or group)


eurodeputado

eurodeputado m (plural eurodeputados, feminine eurodeputada, feminine plural eurodeputadas)

eurodeputados (plural)
eurodeputada (feminine)
eurodeputadas (feminine plural)

(politics) MEP (Member of the European Parliament)


lanceiro

From Late Latin lanciārius, from Latin lancea + -ārius. By surface analysis, lanza + -eiro.

(military) spearman (soldier armed with a spear)

(military) lancer (cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon)

se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua

1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense

(archaic, military, architecture) embrasure


saibro

From Latin sabulum, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.

(heraldry) sable (the black colour on a coat of arms)


revanchismo

(chiefly politics) vindictiveness (a policy or tendency of seeking revenge)


antirradar

(military) antiradar (preventing detection by radar)


europarlamentario

europarlamentario m (plural europarlamentarios, feminine europarlamentaria, feminine plural europarlamentarias)

europarlamentarios (plural)
europarlamentaria (feminine)
europarlamentarias (feminine plural)


cabaleiro

cabaleiros (plural)
cavaleiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cavaleiro, from Late Latin caballārius, from Vulgar Latin caballus.

1243, Ángel Rodríguez González and José Angel Rey Caíña (eds.), "Tumbo de Lorenzana. Transcripción y estudio", in Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 127

if there were any nobleman in the village, he should be knighted

se ouuer filiodalgo in na uilla, fazelo caualeyro

(nobility) knight (noble ranked below a count)


granada de man

granada de man f (plural granadas de man)

(military) hand grenade (explosive device designed to be thrown by hand)


parafascismo

Fascismos e parafascismos, así como algúns tradicionalismos parafascistas como a Action Française e os seus precedentes inmediatos, son movementos de etioloxía netamente urbana e moderna, que xorden e se desenvolven por mor dunha grave cise do capitalismo europeo e en resposta á proximidade da alternativa socialista.

2007, Justo G. Beramendi, De provincia a nación: historia do galeguismo político, Edicións Xerais de Galicia, →ISBN, page 541:


colexio electoral

colexio electoral m (plural colexios electorais)

(politics) polling station, polling station


cabina electoral

cabina electoral f (plural cabinas electorais)


dereitista

dereitista m or f by sense (plural dereitistas)

(person, politics) right-winger, rightist (a person who belongs to the political right; a member of the right wing of a party or group)


monocor

monocores (plural)
monocolor (alternative)


loitosa

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lūctuōsa.

et devedes a seer nosso vassalo; et a vosso passamento, dardes a nos V soldos de loytosa

1269, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 919

and you should be our vassal; and at your decease, you'll give us five solidi as loitosa

(law, historical, taxation, feudalism) tax paid by the family or heirs of a deceased person to his or her lord


marraún

(military) recruit (a newly enlisted soldier)


marraùn

(military) recruit (a newly enlisted soldier) (dated)


abrollo

From Latin aperī oculōs (“open [your] eyes!”). Compare Portuguese abrolho, Spanish abrojo.

inh

Et os mouros deytarõ moytos abr[ol]los pelos camjnos et polos pasos de Aguadiana, en que se mãcasem os omes et as bestas

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 740:

And the Moors tossed many caltrops along the roads and the forths of the Guadiana, for hurting men and beasts


zarpador

(military) sapper (soldier responsible for digging underground galleries)


orzamento

orzamentos (plural)
orçamento (alternative)

(finance, politics) budget (itemized summary of intended expenditure and expected revenue)


guerrilleiro

gl-noun

guerrilleiro m (plural guerrilleiros, feminine guerrilleira, feminine plural guerrilleiras)

guerrilleiros (plural)
guerrilleira (feminine)
guerrilleiras (feminine plural)


guerrilleiro

gl-adj

guerrilleiro (feminine guerrilleira, masculine plural guerrilleiros, feminine plural guerrilleiras)

guerrilleira (feminine)
guerrilleiros (masculine plural)
guerrilleiras (feminine plural)


sobresinal

Attested since circa 1300. From sobre + sinal.


ministrábel

ministrábel m or f (plural ministrábeis)

ministrábeis (plural)
ministrable (alternative)


manguela

Attested since the 14th century. From Latin manganum + -ela, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Compare Italian manganello.

(military, historical) mangonel, siege engine