caseiro

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from casa (“house”) +‎ -eiro, or from Latin casārius. Compare Spanish casero.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsejɾo̝/

caseiro m (feminine singular caseira, masculine plural caseiros, feminine plural caseiras)

1. homemade, home-grown

   Insisto, vas probar esta augardente caseira. ― I insist, you're going to taste this homemade spirit.

2. homely; home-loving

caseiro m (plural caseiros)

1. tenant of a farm or cottage
   • 1391, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", in Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 158:

     Iten mando a meu yrmao Aluaro Marques toda a minna casa de Marçay, en que mora meu caseiro Afonso Eanes

     Item, I devise to my brother Álvaro Marques my house of Marzai, in which now dwells my tenant Afonso Eanes

   Synonyms: arrendatario, colono, inquilino

• Caseiros

• casa

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

From Old Portuguese caseiro, from casa (“house”) +‎ -eiro[1], or from Latin casārius[2]. Compare Spanish casero.

• Hyphenation: ca‧sei‧ro

caseiro (feminine caseira, masculine plural caseiros, feminine plural caseiras)

1. homemade, home-grown

   Os pastéis são caseiros?

   Are the pastries homemade?

2. amateur, not professional

   filme caseiro

   amateur movie

   Synonym: amador

   Antonym: profissional

caseiro m (plural caseiros, feminine caseira, feminine plural caseiras)

1. cottager (someone who inhabits or takes care of a cottage or similar habitation)