roxo

Adjective

roxo

1. neuter of roxu

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese roxo (“dark red”), from Latin russeus (“dark red”), from russus (“red”).

Etymology 2

Etymology

Inherited from Latin russus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroʃo/
• Rhymes: -oʃo
• Hyphenation: ro‧xo

Adjective

roxo m (plural roxos, feminine roxa, feminine plural roxas)

1. reddish-brown
   • 1326, M. Lucas Alvarez, M. J. Justo Martín, editors, Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537), Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 64:

     Et vendemusuos o dito casal et herdade con pobrança de çinquo armentios, conuen a saber: huun boy ruuyo et outro boy amarello ruuyo, et huna vaca laura roxa et outra ruuya ruuyalua roxa, et outra sua filia de tal collor

     We sell you the aforementioned farm and property populated by five heads of cattle, which are: a reddish ox and another yellow reddish ox, and a dark red cow and another one reddish red, and her daughter of the same colour.

References

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “roxo”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “roxo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “roxo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese roxo (“dark red”), from Latin russeus (“dark red”), from russus (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

Cognate with Galician roxo (“reddish-brown”), Spanish rojo (“red”), Catalan ros (“blond”), Occitan ros (“russet”), French roux (“russet”), Italian rosso (“red”) and Romanian roșu (“red”).

Pronunciation

• (some Portuguese speakers) IPA^(key): /ˈʀoʃu/
• (Far South Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique) IPA^(key): /ˈroʃu/
• (Minas Gerais, Northern and Northeastern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʃu/
• (Caipira, Centre-Western Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʃʊ/
• Rhymes: -oʃu
• Hyphenation: ro‧xo

• Audio (South Brazil):

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Adjective

roxo (feminine roxa, masculine plural roxos, feminine plural roxas, diminutive roxinho)

1. having purple as its color
2. being bruised
3. (figuratively) overcome with envy; green

   está roxo de inveja ― he is green with envy

4. (archaic) red

   o Mar Roxo ― the Red Sea

Noun

roxo m (plural roxos)

1. purple (colour)
2. (archaic) red (colour)

See also

• olho roxo
• terra roxa