gaiola

• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: ga‧io‧la

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin caveola, diminutive from Latin cavea. Doublet of xaula, which was borrowed through French.

gaiola f (plural gaiolas)

1. cage

   Synonym: xaula

2. snare

   Synonyms: panterlo, trampa

• Gaiola

From goio (“joy”) +‎ -ola.

gaiola f (plural gaiolas)

1. diversion, fun

   Synonym: troula

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

gaiola f (plural caiole)

1. birdcage

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin caveola, diminutive from Latin cavea. Cognate to Spanish gayola. Compare jaula, a doublet borrowed through French.

• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: gai‧o‧la

gaiola f (plural gaiolas)

1. cage

   Synonym: jaula

2. birdcage

• → Hunsrik: Gaioll
• → Kimbundu: ngaiola
• >? Macanese: cajola
• → Tetum: gaiola

• “gaiola” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “gaiola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025