tojo

See also: Tojo, tojó, -tojo, and tōjō

Malagasy

Participle

tojo

1. met, come face to face with

Musi

Musi cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tojo

Numeral

tojo

1. seven

Portuguese

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *toju or similar; compare Spanish tojo, Asturian toxu, Galician toxo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.ʒu/

• Hyphenation: to‧jo

Noun

tojo m (plural tojos)

1. gorse; furze (Ulex europaeus, an evergreen shrub of Europe and northern Africa)

   Synonym: tojeira

Further reading

• “tojo”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “tojo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “tojo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tojo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “tojo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “tojo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *toju or similar; compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Galician toxo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoxo/ [ˈt̪o.xo]
• Rhymes: -oxo
• Syllabification: to‧jo

Noun

tojo m (plural tojos)

1. furze, gorse (shrub of genus Ulex)

   Synonym: guiri

Further reading

• “tojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014