moio

From Portuguese moio, from Latin modius (“Roman peck of about 9 L”), from modus (“measure”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). Doublet of moyo.

moio (plural moios)

1. (historical) A traditional Portuguese dry measure, equal to about 0.78–1.15 m³ at different places and times.

• mojo, moyo

• alqueire (¹⁄₆₀ moio), fanga (¹⁄₁₅ moio)

moio

1. first-person singular present indicative of moer

From Latin modius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmojo̝/

moio m (plural moios)

1. a unit of volume, equivalent to 8 olas or 128 litres
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 591:

     Sobeiament me pesa porque naçí, ca ia mays de mil moyos de sange de bõos caualeyros son ia uertudos por mj̃.

     I'm really sorry, because since I was born more than a thousand moios of blood of good knights has been poured by me

2. (dated) a dry measure equivalent to 12 ferrados

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

From Latin modius, from modus (“measure”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). Cognate with Spanish moyo and Galician moio.

• Rhymes: -oju
• Hyphenation: moi‧o

moio m (plural moios)

1. (historical) moio, Portuguese modius, a traditional large unit of dry volume equal to about 0.78–1.15 m³ at different places and times
2. (colloquial) sixty

   Synonym: sessenta

• alqueire (¹⁄₆₀ moio), fanga (¹⁄₁₅ moio)