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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fovea, with a change in gender or possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *foveum. Compare Portuguese fojo, Galician foxo, Asturian fueyu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈoʝo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈoʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈoʒo/
- Rhymes: -oʝo
- Syllabification: ho‧yo
Noun
hoyo m (plural hoyos)
- hole
- Synonym: agujero
- (golf) hole
Derived terms
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Further reading
Warao
Noun
hoyo
- stone