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)

  1. (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)

  1. badger
Derived terms
  • Teixoeira
  • Teixoeiras

Adjective

teixo (feminine teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)

  1. dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
  2. severe, unsociable

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN.
  3. ^ 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]
 

  • Hyphenation: tei‧xo

Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. yew

References

  1. ^ teixo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032025
  2. ^ teixo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082025