seixo
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seixos
Galician
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Etymology
From Latin saxum (“rock”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“cut”). Cognate with Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Italian sasso (“stone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
seixo m (plural seixos)
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References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “seyx”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seixo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seixo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seixo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin saxum (“a stone”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“cut”). Compare Galician seixo (“stone”) and Italian sasso (“stone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
seixo m (plural seixos)
- pebble (small stone)
- Synonyms: calhau, cascalho, pedregulho, pedrinha
- (geology, Wentworth scale) pebble (particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter)
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Further reading
seixo on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
