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, 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
Derived terms
  • Teixedo
  • teixeira
  • Teixeira
  • Teixeiro
  • Teixido
  • Teixo

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
Derived terms
  • Teixoeira
  • Teixoeiras

Adjective

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
  • “teix” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “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, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 240 – via De Gruyter.

Portuguese
teixo (Taxus baccata)

Etymology

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

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

  • Hyphenation: tei‧xo

Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)

  1. yew

References
  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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