trigo

See also: Trigo

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin trīticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiɡo/
• Syllabification: tri‧go
• Rhymes: -iɡo

Noun

trigo m

1. wheat

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “trigo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Catalan

Verb

trigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of trigar

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish trigo, from Latin triticum, from trītus, perfect passive participle of terō (“graze, grind”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri‧go

Noun

trigo

1. wheat; any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish trigo (“wheat”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri‧go

Noun

trigo

1. wheat

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English trigonometry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɹɪk̚⁵⁵ kou̯³⁵/

Noun

trigo

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) trigonometry

French

Etymology

Clipping of trigonométrie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.ɡo/

Noun

trigo f (uncountable)

1. (informal) trig (trigonometry)

   J'adore la trigo. ― I love trig.

Further reading

• “trigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese triigo (form already attested in local 10th century local Medieval Latin documents), from Latin triticum probably through a Vulgar Latin tridicum.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiɡo/ [ˈt̪ɾi.ɣ̞ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈtɾiɡo/ [ˈt̪ɾi.ɣ̞ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈtɾiħo/ [ˈt̪ɾi.ħʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -iɡo

• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Rhymes: -iħo

• Hyphenation: tri‧go

Noun

trigo m (plural trigos)

1. (usually uncountable) wheat
   • 1285, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1114:

     et darmos ende cada anno por vosso mayordomo, a que devemos a proveer mentre coller o pan et o vinno, meo de vinno et de noçes, de castanas, de peros, de legumia, et de çhousa, et de lino et de triigo, et de sirgo, et de gaado mayor et de cuba se o vendermos, et terça de çeveyra et de millio, et dorgio, et levarmolo todo por nos a a vossa grangia dAmbas Mestas

     and so we should give each year to your steward, whom we should provide as he is taking the bread and the wine, half of wine and of walnuts, of chestnuts, of peers, of legume, of the products of the garden, of flax, of wheat, of silk, of oxen, of sold wine; and a third of fodder, of millet, of barley; and we should deliver all of it at your farm of Ambas Mestas

Derived terms

• Trigais
• trigal
• Trigal
• Trigás
• trigueira
• Vilartrigueiro

Adjective

trigo (feminine triga, masculine plural trigos, feminine plural trigas)

1. wheaten; of or pertaining to wheat
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

     For this is good a plaster made of wormwood juice, and of celery, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil with wheaten flour

Derived terms

• fariña triga
• pantrigo
• Pantrigueira

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “trigo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trigo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trigo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trigo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

trigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of trigar

Gothic

Romanization

trigō

1. romanization of 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐍉

Maranao

Etymology

From Spanish trigo, from Latin triticum, from trītus, perfect passive participle of terō (“graze, grind”).

Noun

trigo

1. wheat

References

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Masbatenyo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trigo (“wheat”).

Noun

trigo

1. wheat

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• trigu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtriɡu/

Noun

trigo m (plural trigo)

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Portuguese

Trigo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese triigo, from Latin triticum.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.ɡu/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.ɡu/ [ˈtɾi.ɣu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.ɡu/ [ˈtɾi.ɣu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.ɡu/

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Rhymes: -iɡu
• Hyphenation: tri‧go

Noun

trigo m (plural trigos)

1. wheat

Derived terms

• atrigado
• separar o joio do trigo
• trigal
• trigo-duro
• trigo-mourisco
• trigo-mouro
• trigo-sarraceno

Descendants

• Angolar: tiigu
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: trigu
• Principense: tigu
• → Indonesian: terigu
• → Javanese: ꦠꦿꦶꦒꦸ (trigu)
• → Tetum: trigu

Further reading

• “trigo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “trigo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “trigo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “trigo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology 2

Verb

trigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of trigar

Sambali

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trigo (“wheat”).

Noun

trigo

1. wheat

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin trīticum. Related to English triticale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiɡo/ [ˈt̪ɾi.ɣ̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: tri‧go

Noun

trigo m (plural trigos)

1. wheat

Derived terms

• trigo de invierno
• trigo de marzo
• trigo de Polonia
• trigo de vaca
• trigo del diablo
• trigo del milagro
• trigo limpio
• trigo sarraceno
• trigueño
• triguero
• una cosa es predicar, y otra dar trigo
• ¿qué tienen que ver los cojones con comer trigo?

Descendants

• → Cahuilla: tríiwa'a
• → Cebuano: trigo
• → Central Tarahumara: turio
• → Chickasaw: tili'ko'
• → Choctaw: tiliko
• →⇒ Classical Nahuatl: trigo tlaxcalli
• → Maranao: trigo
• → Masbatenyo: trigo
• → Mayo: tirijco
• → Purepecha: trigu
• → Quechua: riwu
• → Sambali: trigo
• → Tagalog: trigo
• →⇒ Tagalog: triguhan
• → Tausug: tirigu (“flour”)

Further reading

• “trigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trigo (“wheat”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiɡo/ [ˈt̪ɾiː.ɣ̠o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: tri‧go

Noun

trigo (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜄᜓ)

1. wheat (plant and grain)

Related terms

• triguhan

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪɡɔ/

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh tricyaw, from Old Welsh tricet, from Proto-Brythonic *trigad, from Latin trīcō.

Verb

trigo (first-person singular present trigaf)

1. to live, to dwell, to reside

   Synonyms: preswylio, anheddu, cartrefu, byw

Conjugation

Conjugation of trigo (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	trigaf	trigi	trig, triga	trigwn	trigwch	trigant	trigir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	trigwn	trigit	trigai	trigem	trigech	trigent	trigid
preterite	trigais	trigaist	trigodd	trigasom	trigasoch	trigasant	trigwyd
pluperfect	trigaswn	trigasit	trigasai	trigasem	trigasech	trigasent	trigasid, trigesid
present subjunctive	trigwyf	trigych	trigo	trigom	trigoch	trigont	triger
imperative	—	triga	triged	trigwn	trigwch	trigent	triger
verbal noun	trigo
verbal adjectives	trigedig trigadwy

Conjugation of trigo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	triga i, trigaf i	trigi di	trigith o/e/hi, trigiff e/hi	trigwn ni	trigwch chi	trigan nhw
conditional	trigwn i, trigswn i	triget ti, trigset ti	trigai fo/fe/hi, trigsai fo/fe/hi	trigen ni, trigsen ni	trigech chi, trigsech chi	trigen nhw, trigsen nhw
preterite	trigais i, triges i	trigaist ti, trigest ti	trigodd o/e/hi	trigon ni	trigoch chi	trigon nhw
imperative	—	triga	—	—	trigwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Related terms

• trig (“stay, dwelling”)
• trigfa (“abode, dwelling-place”)
• trigfan (“abode, dwelling-place”)
• trigfannu (“to dwell”)
• trigle (“abode”)
• trigolyn (“dweller, inhabitant”)

Etymology 2

From terrig +‎ -o.

Verb

trigo (first-person singular present trigaf)

1. (South Wales, of animals) to die, to perish

   Synonyms: marw, trengi, darfod

Conjugation

Conjugation of trigo (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	trigaf	trigi	trig, triga	trigwn	trigwch	trigant	trigir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	trigwn	trigit	trigai	trigem	trigech	trigent	trigid
preterite	trigais	trigaist	trigodd	trigasom	trigasoch	trigasant	trigwyd
pluperfect	trigaswn	trigasit	trigasai	trigasem	trigasech	trigasent	trigasid, trigesid
present subjunctive	trigwyf	trigych	trigo	trigom	trigoch	trigont	triger
imperative	—	triga	triged	trigwn	trigwch	trigent	triger
verbal noun	trigo
verbal adjectives	trigedig trigadwy

Conjugation of trigo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	triga i, trigaf i	trigi di	trigith o/e/hi, trigiff e/hi	trigwn ni	trigwch chi	trigan nhw
conditional	trigwn i, trigswn i	triget ti, trigset ti	trigai fo/fe/hi, trigsai fo/fe/hi	trigen ni, trigsen ni	trigech chi, trigsech chi	trigen nhw, trigsen nhw
preterite	trigais i, triges i	trigaist ti, trigest ti	trigodd o/e/hi	trigon ni	trigoch chi	trigon nhw
imperative	—	triga	—	—	trigwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Mutated forms of trigo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
trigo	drigo	nhrigo	thrigo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “trigo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies