toldo
Galician edit
Verb edit
toldo
Old High German edit
Noun edit
toldo ?
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tol‧do
Noun edit
toldo m (plural toldos)
- awning (a rooflike cover extended over or before any place)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French tialz (“area between the stern and mainmast”), from Proto-Germanic *teldą; see also Middle Dutch telt, Old High German zelt and Old Norse tjald. Cognate with English tilt (“tent fabric and covering”).
Noun edit
toldo m (plural toldos)
- awning
- 2021 August 26, Eva Saiz, “Los desenterradores de la memoria en la fosa de Pico Reja”, in El País[1]:
- Estudian los cadáveres que yacen entre la arcilla rojiza y los ya dispuestos sobre unas mesas protegidas por toldos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- lean-to, wigwam (a simple structure made by indigenous people as housing)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
toldo
Further reading edit
- “toldo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014