toxo

See also: tóxo and toxo-

English

Noun

toxo (uncountable)

  1. (informal, medicine) Toxoplasmosis.

Galician
toxos

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tojo, from a substrate *toju or similar,[1] from *togio or *toio, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tei- or *(s)teig- (“to be sharp, to stab”), whence Latin stilus and English stick and thistle;[2] compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Occitan toujo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtoʃo̝/

Noun

toxo m (plural toxos)

  1. gorse (Ulex europaeus)
    Synonym: toxo arnal
  2. (figuratively) sourpuss person

Derived terms
  • A Toxa
  • Tixosa
  • toxal (“place covered by gorse”)
  • Toxás
  • Toxedo
  • toxeira (“place covered by gorse”)
  • Toxo
  • toxo albar (“Ulex europaeus”)
  • toxo arnal (“Ulex europaeus”)
  • toxo femia (“Ulex minor”)
  • toxo molar (“Ulex minor”)
  • Toxos Outos
  • Toxoso

See also

References
  • “tojal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “toj” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “toxo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “toxo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “toxo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. tojo..
  2. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2006) Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, →ISBN, pages 127-131
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