teixo

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin taxus, from Scythian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtejʃo̝/

Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. (botany) yew
    • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), 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
  • teixeira

Etymology 2

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈtejʃo̝/

Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. badger

Adjective

teixo m (feminine singular teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)

  1. dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
  2. severe, unsociable

References

  1. ↑ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. tejón.
  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, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 240 – via De Gruyter.

Portuguese

teixo (Taxus baccata)

Etymology

From Latin taxus, from Scythian.

Pronunciation

Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. yew
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