arroio

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (documented by Pliny as arrugia). Cognate with Portuguese arroio and Spanish arroyo.

Alternative forms

• arroxo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈroi̯ʊ]

Noun

arroio m (plural arroios)

1. brook, stream

   Synonyms: regato, rego, regueiro

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 262:

     diz Preçiam ẽno começo do seu Libro mayor queos gregos som fontes dos saberes et os latinos arroyos que manã daquelas fontes

     Precianus says at the beginning of his main book that the Greeks are the source of all knowledges and the Romans the stream that flow from that springs

Derived terms

• arroiada
• arroiar
• Arroxo
• Arroxo Seco

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arroyo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “arroyo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arroio”, 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), “arroio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arroio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

arroio

1. first-person singular present indicative of arroiar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈʁoj.u/ [aˈhoɪ̯.u]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈʁoj.u/ [aˈhoɪ̯.u]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈʁoj.u/ [aˈχoɪ̯.u]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈʁoj.o/ [aˈhoɪ̯.o]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈʁoj.u/

• Hyphenation: ar‧roi‧o

Noun

arroio m (plural arroios)

1. a brook, stream

   Synonyms: ribeiro, córrego, flume, regato, riacho, ribeira, riozinho, veia, veio