tamujo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tamuje, tamuge

Etymology

See Spanish tamujo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈmu.ʒu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈmu.ʒu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈmu.ʒo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈmu.ʒu/

Noun

tamujo m (plural tamujos)

1. (botany) Flueggea tinctoria
2. (Azores) Myrsine retusa
   • 1983, João de Melo, O Meu Mundo Não é Deste Reino:

     Nos sítios de passagem, descobriu as árvores da faia, do cedro e do vinhático, os grandes ovos de dinossauro das pedras que jaziam entre o tamujo, os fetos e a urze.

     In the places of passage he discovered beeches, cedars, Madeira mahoganies, giant dinosaur eggs of stones which where lying between Myrsine retusa, ferns and heather.

Spanish

Etymology

Together with Portuguese tamujo from Vulgar Latin, an ancient Berber borrowing. Occurs in Latin Tamugadis ~ Thamugadi, name of a town on the Eastern Algerian coast the ruins of which are now known as Timgad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈmuxo/ [t̪aˈmu.xo]
• Rhymes: -uxo
• Syllabification: ta‧mu‧jo

Noun

tamujo m (plural tamujos)

1. (botany) Flueggea tinctoria

Derived terms

• tamujal

 

References

• Bertoldi, Vittorio (1948) “Quisquiliae Ibericae”, in Romance Philology‎^[1] (in Italian), volume 1, number 3, pages 192–198

Further reading

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