bruxo
See also: bruxò
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese bruxo
Noun
[edit]bruxo (plural bruxos)
- A Brazilian witch/healer.
- 1988 February 7, Ines Rieder, “Gay Murders in Brazil”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 1:
- People [with AIDS] who can afford it go to expensive private clinics. Those with little financial resources consult with bruxos, umbandists, spiritists, or they die at home.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain, possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Occitan bruèissa, Portuguese bruxa, Spanish bruja), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
Noun
[edit]bruxo m (plural bruxos, feminine bruxa, feminine plural bruxas)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bruxo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]bruxo
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Masculine form of bruxa.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bru‧xo
Noun
[edit]bruxo m (plural bruxos, feminine bruxa, feminine plural bruxas)
Derived terms
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