Where does “Pereira” come from?
Pereira (Galician) comes from Galician pera, from Old Portuguese pera, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
Pereira (Galician): A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia
Definitions
- A name of a number of villages and parishes in Galicia
Ancestry of “Pereira”, step by step
Pereira traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician pera
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | pera | pear |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | pera | for, towards; pear |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |