arroio

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (documented by Pliny as arrugia). Cognate with Portuguese arroio and Spanish arroyo.[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aˈroi̯ʊ]

Noun

arroio m (plural arroios)

  1. brook, stream
    Synonyms: regato, rego, regueiro
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 262:
      diz Preçiam ẽno começo do seu Libro mayor queos gregos som fontes dos saberes et os latinos arroyos que manã daquelas fontes
      Precianus says at the beginning of his main book that the Greeks are the source of all knowledges and the Romans the stream that flow from that springs
Derived terms

References

  • arroyo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • arroyo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • arroio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • arroio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • arroio” 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) “arroyo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Verb

arroio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arroiar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈʁoj.u/ [aˈhoɪ̯.u]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /aˈʁoj.u/ [aˈχoɪ̯.u]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈʁoj.o/ [aˈhoɪ̯.o]

  • Hyphenation: ar‧roi‧o

Noun

arroio m (plural arroios)

  1. a brook, stream
    Synonyms: ribeiro, córrego, flume, regato, riacho, ribeira, riozinho, veia, veio
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