teixo

• IPA^(key): /ˈtejʃo/ [ˈt̪ej.ʃʊ]
• Rhymes: -ejʃo
• Hyphenation: tei‧xo

From Latin taxus, from Scythian.

teixo m (plural teixos)

1. (botany) yew
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:

     Para desfazer aquel callo ual moyto o maluisco et a Rayz do lilio et a Rayz do teixo

     the marshmallow, the lily root, and the yew root, are very useful for undoing that callosity

From late Vulgar Latin taxus (“badger”), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”)^[1] or either from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“badger”).^[2][3]

teixo m (plural teixos)

1. badger

teixo (feminine teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)

1. dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
2. severe, unsociable

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “teix”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “teixo”, 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), “teixo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “teixo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin taxus,^[1][2] from Scythian. Compare Galician teixo, Asturian texu, and Spanish tejo.

• Hyphenation: tei‧xo

teixo m (plural teixos)

1. yew

• Teixeira