maio
See also: Maio
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mayo, from Latin Māius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmajo̝/
Noun
maio m (plural maios)
- May
- Maio me molla, maio me enxuga, con raza de sol e raza de chuvia (traditional song)
- May soaks me, May makes me dry, with rays of sun and gusts of rain
- (in the plural) traditional celebration held the first day of May
- vegetable construction made for this celebration
- person that during the aforementioned feast covers his or her clothes with flowers and twigs
- traditional song sing during the celebrations held the first day of May
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) mes do calendario gregoriano; xaneiro, febreiro, marzo, abril, maio, xuño, xullo, agosto, setembro, outubro, novembro, decembro (Category: gl:Months)
Festa dos maios on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
- “mayo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “mayo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “maio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “maio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “maio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese mayo, from Latin Māius.
Pronunciation
Usage notes
The names of the months used to be capitalized in European Portuguese until the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990; currently, both European and Brazilian standards prescribe against the capitalization.
Descendants
- Kabuverdianu: máiu
- Tetum: maiu
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