poço

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See also: poco, POCO, and póco

Old Spanish

poço

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin puteus. Compare its written form with Portuguese poço

Pronunciation

Noun

poço m (plural poços)

  1. well (hole in the ground as a source of water or other fluids)
    • c. 1132, Cartularios de Valpuesta, doc 162
      (...) et abet se adimplir del poço de sancto Dominico per foro (...)
      And it is to be fulfilled from the well of Saint Dominic by charter.

Descendants

  • Spanish: pozo

Portuguese

poço

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese poço, from Latin puteus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). Compare Galician pozo, Spanish pozo, Catalan pou, Occitan potz, French puits, Italian pozzo and Romanian puț.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -osu
  • Hyphenation: po‧ço

Noun

poço m (plural poços, metaphonic)

  1. well
    Synonyms: (Angola, Brazil) cacimba, (Angola) quixima
  2. pit

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