toldo

See also: Toldo and toldó

Galician

Verb

toldo

1. first-person singular present indicative of toldar

Old High German

Etymology

Apparently related to tola (“grape stalk”), which Kluge compares to Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome”), θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom, sprout”).

Noun

toldo ?

1. top, crown (of tree/plant)

Descendants

• Middle High German: tolde
  • German: Dolde

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably related to the Spanish below, but compare Arabic [script needed] (dholla). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. is it ظلة?

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”), borrowed from Old Norse tjald or another Germanic language, 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10