rastrojo

Spanish

Etymology

From restojo, from Vulgar Latin *restuclu < *restucŭlum (compare Portuguese restolho, Aragonese restollo, Catalan rostoll, restoll, Occitan restolh, cf. also southern Italian dialectal restuccio), variant of *restupŭlum (compare Catalan restoble, Occitan restoble), from a verb *restupulāre, from stupula, alteration of Latin stipula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rasˈtɾoxo/ [rasˈt̪ɾo.xo]
• Rhymes: -oxo
• Syllabification: ras‧tro‧jo

Noun

rastrojo m (plural rastrojos)

1. (usually in the plural) weeds
2. (usually in the plural) chaff, cuttings
3. (usually in the plural) stover
   • 1883, Emilia Pardo Bazán, La Tribuna:

     De los verdes y gayos maizales sólo quedaban rastrojos.

     All that was left of the gay green cornfields were the stovers.

Derived terms

• rastrojal
• rastrojar
• rastrojera

 

Further reading

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