teixo
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtejʃo/ [ˈt̪ej.ʃʊ]
- Rhymes: -ejʃo
- Hyphenation: tei‧xo
Etymology 1
From Latin taxus, from Scythian.
Noun
teixo m (plural teixos)
- (botany) yew
- 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:
- Para desfazer aquel callo ual moyto o maluisco et a Rayz do lilio et a Rayz do teixo
- the marshmallow, the lily root, and the yew root, are very useful for undoing that callosity
Derived terms
- Teixedo
- teixeira
- Teixeira
- Teixeiro
- Teixido
- Teixo
Etymology 2
From late Vulgar Latin taxus (“badger”), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”)[1] or either from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“badger”).[2][3]
Noun
teixo m (plural teixos)
Derived terms
- Teixoeira
- Teixoeiras
Related terms
Adjective
teixo (feminine teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)
- dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
- severe, unsociable
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “teix”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “teixo”, 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), “teixo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “teixo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tejón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN.
- ^ Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen[1], Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 240 – via De Gruyter.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin taxus,[1][2] from Scythian. Compare Galician teixo, Asturian texu, and Spanish tejo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte(j).ʃu/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte(j).ʃo/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃo]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtɐj.ʃu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtej.ʃu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtej.ʃu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈte.ʃu/
- Hyphenation: tei‧xo
Noun
teixo m (plural teixos)
Related terms
References
- ^ “teixo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ^ “teixo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025