Noun: toxo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | toxo |
| Plural m | toxos |
Sample Sentences
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A raíz do toxo verde é moi mala de arrincar; os amoriños primeiros son moi malos de olvidar (Green gorse stump is so hard to unroot; first love is so hard to forget)
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se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares (if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places) [1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:]
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2006, Malandrómeda, Paseo no fume [song] (I'm a gorse [prickly] but I am [sound] as a box tree)
Nouns inflected like toxo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese tojo, from a substrate *toju or similar, from *togio or *toio, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey- or *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”), whence Latin stilus and English stick and thistle; compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Occitan toja. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
tojo', Latin Nouns '
stilus', English Nouns '
stick', Portuguese Nouns '
tojo', Asturian Nouns '
toxu'.
Verbs referencing "toxo"
Portuguese Nouns
tojo, Spanish Nouns
tojo, Asturian Nouns
toxu.
Translations