poço

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See also: poco, POCO, and póco

Old Spanish

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poço

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin puteus. Compare its written form with Portuguese poço

Pronunciation

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Noun

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poço m (plural poços)

  1. well (hole in the ground as a source of water or other fluids)
    • c. 1132, Cartularios de Valpuesta, doc 162
      (...) et abet se adimplir del poço de sancto Dominico per foro (...)
      And it is to be fulfilled from the well of Saint Dominic by charter.

Descendants

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  • Spanish: pozo

Portuguese

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poço

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese poço, from Latin puteus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (to strike). Compare Galician pozo, Spanish pozo, Catalan pou, Occitan potz, French puits, Italian pozzo and Romanian puț.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -osu
  • Hyphenation: po‧ço

Noun

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poço m (plural poços, metaphonic)

  1. well
    Synonyms: (Angola, Brazil) cacimba, (Angola) quixima
  2. pit

Derived terms

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