Pereira
Meaning
- (feminine) A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia.
- (feminine) a toponymical surname
Frequency
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/peˈɾejɾa̝/
Etymology
At face value, from pereira (“pear tree”). Alternatively, from Medieval Latin petraria, from petra (“stone”) + -aria. For the evolution compare Pérez, a patronymical surname derived from Petrus.
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