rastrojo
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From restojo, from Vulgar Latin *restuclu < *restucŭlum (compare Portuguese restolho, Aragonese restollo, Catalan rostoll, restoll, Occitan restolh, cf. also southern Italian dialectal restuccio), variant of *restupŭlum (compare Catalan restoble, Occitan restoble), from a verb *restupulāre, from stupula, alteration of Latin stipula.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rastrojo m (plural rastrojos) (usually in the plural)
- weeds
- chaff, cuttings
- stover
- 1883, Emilia Pardo Bazán, La Tribuna:
- De los verdes y gayos maizales sólo quedaban rastrojos.
- All that was left of the gay green cornfields were the stovers.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “rastrojo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “rastrojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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