bruxo

Borrowed from Portuguese bruxo

bruxo (plural bruxos)

1. A Brazilian witch/healer.
   • 1988 February 7, Ines Rieder, “Gay Murders in Brazil”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 1:

     People [with AIDS] who can afford it go to expensive private clinics. Those with little financial resources consult with bruxos, umbandists, spiritists, or they die at home.

Uncertain, possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Occitan bruèissa, Portuguese bruxa, Spanish bruja), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).

bruxo m (plural bruxos, feminine bruxa, feminine plural bruxas)

1. wizard

• bruxa f
• bruxería f

• “bruxo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

bruxo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bruxare

Masculine form of bruxa.

• Hyphenation: bru‧xo

bruxo m (plural bruxos, feminine bruxa, feminine plural bruxas)

1. wizard

• bruxaria

• bruxa