piollo

• piolho (reintegrationist)
• pollo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, diminutive of pēdis (“louse”). Cognate with Portuguese piolho and Spanish piojo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjoɟo/ [ˈpjo.ɟʊ]
• Rhymes: -oɟo
• Hyphenation: pio‧llo

piollo m (plural piollos)

1. louse
2. (in the plural) a certain sickness that causes tongue warts in cattle

• piolla
• piollo famento
• piollo pato
• piolloso

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “piollo”, 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), “piollo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piollo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN