arroio

Galician

Alternative forms

• arroxo

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from ; documented by Pliny as arrugia. Cognate with Portuguese arroio and Spanish arroyo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrojo̝/

Noun

arroio m (plural arroios)

1. brook, stream
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 262:

     diz Preçiam ẽno começo do seu Libro mayor queos gregos som fontes dos saberes et os latinos arroyos que manã daquelas fontes

     Precianus says at the beginning of his main book that the Greeks are the source of all knowledges and the Romans the stream that flow from that springs

   Synonyms: regato, rego, regueiro

Derived terms

• arroiada
• arroiar
• Arroxo

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “arroyo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arroio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Noun

arroio m (plural s)

1. a brook, stream

Synonyms

• ribeiro, córrego, flume, regato, riacho, ribeira, riozinho, veia, veio