toldo

See also: Toldo and toldó

Galician

Verb

toldo

1. first-person singular present indicative of toldar

Old High German

Noun

toldo ?

1. top, crown (of tree/plant)

Descendants

• Middle High German: tolde
  • German: Dolde

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtow.du/ [ˈtoʊ̯.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtow.du/ [ˈtoʊ̯.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtow.do/ [ˈtoʊ̯.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtol.du/ [ˈtoɫ.du]

• Hyphenation: tol‧do

Noun

toldo m (plural toldos)

1. awning (a rooflike cover extended over or before any place)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoldo/ [ˈt̪ol̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -oldo
• Syllabification: tol‧do

Etymology 1

Apparently from Old French tialz (“area between the stern and mainmast, awning”), from Proto-Germanic *teldą; see also Middle Dutch telt, Old High German zelt and Old Norse tjald. Cognate with English tilt (“tent fabric and covering”).

Noun

toldo m (plural toldos)

1. awning, (loosely) canopy
   • 2021 August 26, Eva Saiz, “Los desenterradores de la memoria en la fosa de Pico Reja”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Estudian los cadáveres que yacen entre la arcilla rojiza y los ya dispuestos sobre unas mesas protegidas por toldos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. lean-to, wigwam (a simple structure made by indigenous people as housing)

Derived terms

• toldar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

toldo

1. first-person singular present indicative of toldar

Further reading

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