teixo
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin taxus, from Scythian.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Etymology 2 edit
From late Vulgar Latin taxus (“badger”), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”)[1] or either from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“badger”).[2][3]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
teixo m (plural teixos)
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Adjective edit
teixo (feminine teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)
- dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
- severe, unsociable
References edit
- “teix” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “teixo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “teixo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “teixo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “tejón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (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 edit
Etymology edit
From Latin taxus,[1][2] from Scythian. Compare Galician teixo, Asturian texu, and Spanish tejo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tei‧xo
Noun edit
teixo m (plural teixos)
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ “teixo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “teixo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.