tojo
Malagasy
Portuguese
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *toju or similar; compare Spanish tojo, Asturian toxu, Galician toxo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈto.ʒu/
- Hyphenation: to‧jo
Noun
tojo m (plural tojos)
- gorse; furze (Ulex europaeus, an evergreen shrub of Europe and northern Africa)
- Synonym: tojeira
Further reading
- “tojo” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “tojo” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “tojo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tojo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “tojo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “tojo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *toju or similar; compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Galician toxo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoxo/ [ˈt̪o.xo]
- Rhymes: -oxo
- Syllabification: to‧jo
Further reading
- “tojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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