sobrado

From Old Galician-Portuguese sobrado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin superatum or superadditum. Cognate with Portuguese sobrado and Asturian sobrau.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /soˈβɾaðo̝/

sobrado m (plural sobrados)

1. (archaic) storey, floor, level
   • 1347, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 425:

     se as ditas priora et convento queseren erger a dita casa doutro sobrado ou faser bavor? que façan et ergan en maneyra que non entargem o viso das feestras do balcon da outra mina casa que esta a so nesta

     if the aforementioned prioress and convent would want to erect another storey or make a balcony, that they should do and build so as they don't obstruct the view of the windows of the balcony of my other house which is near this one

   • 1450, A. Fernández Salgado, editor, A documentación medieval de San Bieito do Campo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 88:

     Jten faser todo de nouo os peytorij́ns das ditas casas e poer jaztas e sobrejaztas, e rrecorrer o soyo dos sobrados das ditas casas.

     Item, to rebuild the parapets of the aforementioned houses, to put the bearers and the joists, and to lie down the planking of the storeys of the aforementioned houses

2. (dated) upper floor or level of a two storey house, which was usually left undivided and where the family used to sleep in their beds

   Coida meu pai que me ten / debaixo do pé dereito: / Fanlle a cama no sobrado: / non sabe cando me deito. (folk song)

   My dad thinks that he keeps me under his right foot; but he has his bed on the upper floor and doesn't know when I go to bed.

3. (dated) main room of a house
4. (dated) attic

   Synonym: faiado

5. (dated) wooden floor; planking

   Synonym: soio

• Sobrada
• sobradar
• Sobradelo
• Sobrado

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sobrado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sobrado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sobrado”, 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), “sobrado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sobrado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

sobrado

1. first-person singular present indicative of sobradar

• Hyphenation: so‧bra‧do

sobrado m (plural sobrados)

1. (Brazil, Africa) a two-storey house, especially one with a balcony
2. (Brazil) the upper floor of a house with two stories

sobrado (feminine sobrada, masculine plural sobrados, feminine plural sobradas)

1. past participle of sobrar

• IPA^(key): /soˈbɾado/ [soˈβ̞ɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: so‧bra‧do

sobrado (feminine sobrada, masculine plural sobrados, feminine plural sobradas)

1. left over; spare
2. well-off; well-to-do
3. stuck up

sobrado m (plural sobrados)

1. loft
2. (Andalusia, usually in the plural) leftovers

sobrado (feminine sobrada, masculine plural sobrados, feminine plural sobradas)

1. past participle of sobrar

• “sobrado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024