ceibo

English

Etymology

Spanish ceibo

Noun

ceibo (plural ceibos)

1. The tree Erythrina crista-galli.

Anagrams

• Boice, Cobie

Galician

Etymology 1

From ceibe, from Latin caelebs (“single, unmarried”).

Alternative forms

• ceibe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθejβo̝/, (western) /ˈsejβo̝/

Adjective

ceibo (feminine ceiba, masculine plural ceibos, feminine plural ceibas)

1. free (to roam, applied to an animal or to a terrain)

   Synonym: solto

   —Ollo ao can que está ceibo!

   —Watch out, the dog is loose!

Related terms

• ceibar

References

• “çeyb” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ceibo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ceibo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ceibo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

ceibo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ceibar

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from ceiba, from Taíno.

Noun

ceibo m (plural ceibos)

1. one of several species of trees, principally Erythrina crista-galli

Further reading

• “ceibo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014