vigairo

Attested since the 13th century (vigayro). An early borrowing of Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”). Compare Portuguese vigário.

• IPA^(key): [biˈɣajɾʊ]

vigairo m (plural vigairos, feminine vigaira, feminine plural vigairas)

1. vicar (priest of a parish)

   Synonyms: abade, crego

2. vicar (a person acting on behalf of, or representing, his neighbours)

   Synonyms: mordomo, ramista

3. ranger; a person who traditionally watched over the communal properties of a parish

   Synonyms: coteiro, postor

• vegada
• vez

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vigairo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vigairo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vigayro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vigairo”, 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), “vigairo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Hyphenation: vi‧gai‧ro

vigairo m (plural vigairos)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) alternative form of vigário

• “vigairo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025