rastrojo

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Spanish

Etymology

From restojo, from Vulgar Latin *restuclu < *restucŭlum (compare Portuguese restolho, Aragonese restollo, Catalan rostoll, restoll, Occitan restolh, cf. also southern Italian dialectal restuccio), variant of *restupŭlum (compare Catalan restoble, Occitan restoble), from a verb *restupulāre, from stupula, alteration of Latin stipula.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rasˈtɾoxo/
  • Rhymes: -oxo
  • Syllabification: ras‧tro‧jo

Noun

rastrojo m (plural rastrojos) (usually in the plural)

  1. weeds
  2. chaff, cuttings
  3. stover
    • 1883, Emilia Pardo Bazán, La Tribuna:
      De los verdes y gayos maizales sólo quedaban rastrojos.
      All that was left of the gay green cornfields were the stovers.

Derived terms

References

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

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