Where does “Pereira” come from?
Pereira (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō, from Latin spes, from Proto-Italic spēs — to succeed, to prosper.
Pereira (Portuguese): pear tree
Definitions
- pear tree
Ancestry of “Pereira”, step by step
Pereira traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese Pera
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 2 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 3 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 5 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 6 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 7 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via Portuguese pedreira
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | pedreira | quarry |
| 2 | Portuguese | -ã | forms the feminine of nouns and adjectives ending... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | -a | — |
| 4 | Latin | -at | third-person singular present active indicative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |