tornozelo

See also: tornozêlo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • tornezelo, ternozelo, tornezelo, ternozielo, tornezielo (dialectal)
  • tornozêlo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Portuguese tormezelo, from Old Galician-Portuguese, from *turmo (“bulk, swelling”) +‎ -celo, from a substrate language.[1] Cognate with Galician tornecelo and probably with Catalan turmell and Occitan turmel.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -elu
  • Hyphenation: tor‧no‧ze‧lo

Noun

tornozelo m (plural tornozelos)

  1. (anatomy) ankle (each of the bony protrusions (external and internal) that are found in the region of the joint between the leg and the foot)

References

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “tobillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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