restolho

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *restuclu < *restucŭlum (compare Spanish rastrojo, restojo, Aragonese restollo, Catalan rostoll, restoll, Occitan restolh, cf. also southern Italian dialectal restuccio), variant of *restupŭlum (compare Catalan and Occitan restoble), from a verb *restupulāre, from stupula, alteration of Latin stipula.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: res‧to‧lho

Noun

restolho m (plural restolhos)

  1. stubble (short stalk left in a field after harvest)

Further reading

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