murcho

• mucho, muscho

Probably from Vulgar Latin *mustidus (“wet”),^[1] from Latin mustum (“unfermented wine”) and related to muscum (“moss”); from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”). Cognate with Portuguese murcho, Spanish mustio, and Old Occitan moste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾt͡ʃo̝/

murcho (feminine murcha, masculine plural murchos, feminine plural murchas)

1. wilted, withered

• murchar

• moucho (“sad”)
• mucio
• murcio

• “murcho”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “murcho”, 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), “murcho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “murcho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: mur‧cho

Probably from Vulgar Latin *mustidus (“wet”),^[1] from Latin mustum (“unfermented wine”) and related to muscum (“moss”); from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”). Cognate with Galician murcho, Spanish mustio, and Old Occitan moste.

murcho (feminine murcha, masculine plural murchos, feminine plural murchas)

1. withered
2. (figurative) sad

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

murcho

1. first-person singular present indicative of murchar

• “murcho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “murcho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026