Word, "Lero"

Question

I'm translating an old text. It has a list of names, and at the bottom of the list is the footnote, "* INDICA SOCIO ACTIVOS AL lero DE (Fecha)."

I can't find this word, "Lero" anywhere excepting as a current popular exclamation, sort of equivalent to, "nyahh, nyahh," or "neener, neener!" It's obviously not intended that way here, and this text is over 25 years old.

The person who wrote the original text was very literate, and the capitalization is as I've indicated above. Is it an outdated phrase, or an abbreviation? I don't know.

Can anyone help? Possibly an older educated person who is well-read?

I'll thank you for any suggestions. I think for the time being I'll just have to ignore the word and put, "as of," which seems to be the inferred meaning. -- Fannie

There is something interesting hiding here. - pacofinkler, Apr 20, 2014

Paco, see Clio's answer below. I think that is the intended meaning. It was done originally on an old manual typewriter, which had no degree mark, and used the lower case "L" as the numeral "1". - Fannie, Apr 20, 2014

I did see it Fannie -it is perfect for sure - pacofinkler, Apr 20, 2014

: ) - Fannie, Apr 20, 2014

Answer 1

It is not "lero".

It is a way to make a contraction of a date in Spanish.

From the contraction you could extract two possibilities:

1) First of January - 1ero (1 de enero)

2) First - 1ero ( primero). However, I can not see the document and therefore can not confirm it with certainty, but I will strongly suggest that it is this option.

Thank you, Clio! That makes perfect sense, and I suspect it is right on the mark. "Primero de Septiembre... - Fannie, Apr 20, 2014

(I hit enter before I intended to -- Thank you again, most sincerely.) - Fannie, Apr 20, 2014

:-) - Clío, Apr 20, 2014

Clío, after reading you post i had the eureka moment thanks! - pacofinkler, Apr 20, 2014

Good one! I was looking to far into this one being that she said an old document and didn't use common sense. You get my vote! : ) Great Job! - jphip, Apr 20, 2014

Answer 2

Well, Lero is an old Celtic God!

Do you have anymore of the text? It could be an acronym. what ever it is, it is stating that what ever was mentioned before indicates and active membership to the "LERO". - jphip, Apr 20, 2014

Thank you. Since it was lower-case, doubt it was any reference to the Celtic God; and no, the footnote is simply as stated above, with a date of the writing, which was 1989. - Fannie, Apr 20, 2014

I guess that makes sense al primero de (fecha) what ever fecha it is. - jphip, Apr 20, 2014