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.
Ancestry of “Pereira”, step by step
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |