# teixo
## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtejʃo/ [ˈt̪ej.ʃʊ]
* Rhymes: -ejʃo
* Hyphenation: tei‧xo

### Etymology 1

From Latin taxus, from Scythian.

#### Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)
* (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 teixothe marshmallow, the lily root, and the yew root, are very useful for undoing that callosity

##### Derived terms

* Teixedo
* teixeira
* Teixeira
* Teixeiro
* Teixido
* Teixo

### Etymology 2

From late Vulgar Latin taxus (“badger”), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”) or either from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“badger”).

#### Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)
* badger

##### Derived terms

* Teixoeira
* Teixoeiras

##### Related terms

* porco teixo
* teixón
* teixugo

#### Adjective

teixo (feminine teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)
* dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
* severe, unsociable

### References

* 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tejón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN.
* ↑ Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen‎, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 240 – via De Gruyter.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin taxus, from Scythian. Compare Galician teixo, Asturian texu, and Spanish tejo.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈte(j).ʃu/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈte(j).ʃu/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈte(j).ʃo/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɐj.ʃu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɐj.ʃu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈtej.ʃu/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈtej.ʃu/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈte.ʃu/
* Hyphenation: tei‧xo

### Noun

teixo m (plural teixos)
* yew

#### Related terms

* Teixeira

### References

* ↑ “teixo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “teixo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025