arroio

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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

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

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “arroyo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

Verb

arroio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arroiar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ar‧roi‧o

Noun

arroio m (plural arroios)

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