foz

• fouz (Western Asturias)
• fou (Miranda)
• foiz (Quirós, Proaza)
• ḥoce (Laverde, Peñamellera Baxa, Cabrales, Onís, Llanes (East))
• ḥoz (Ribesella, Parres (East))

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoθ/ [ˈfoθ]
• Rhymes: -oθ
• Syllabification: foz

From Latin falcem.

foz f (plural foces)

1. sickle

• ser de foz y forcáu
• volver pola foz a casa

From Latin fōcem.

foz f (plural foces)

1. deep gorge between two mountains

From Old Galician-Portuguese foz (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fōcem, early monophthongized variant of faucem.

• Hyphenation: foz

foz f (plural foces)

1. mouth of a river

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “foz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “foz”, 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), “foz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese foz, from Latin fōcem, early monophthongized variant of faucem. Compare Spanish hoz.

• Hyphenation: foz
• Homophone: Foz

foz f (plural fozes)

1. mouth of a river

• “foz”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “foz”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “foz”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “foz”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “foz”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025