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teixo

Galician

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Etymology 1

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From Latin taxus, from Scythian.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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From late Vulgar Latin taxus (“badger”), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”)[1] or either from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“badger”).[2][3]

 
teixo / teixugo / porco teixo

Pronunciation

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Noun

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teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. badger
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Adjective

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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

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “teix”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “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.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “tejón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (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

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 teixo on Portuguese Wikipedia
 
teixo (Taxus baccata)

Etymology

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From Latin taxus,[1][2] from Scythian. Compare Galician teixo, Asturian texu, and Spanish tejo.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte(j).ʃu/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte(j).ʃo/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃo]
 

  • Hyphenation: tei‧xo

Noun

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teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. yew
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References

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  1. ^ “teixo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “teixo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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