piojo

See also: Piojó

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, from pēdis, from Proto-Indo-European *pezd-. Compare Portuguese piolho. Doublet of pedículo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjoxo/ [ˈpjo.xo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -oxo
• Syllabification: pio‧jo

Noun

piojo m (plural piojos)

1. a louse, a cootie (a kind of parasitic insect, lice)

   Todavía está en la edad en que cree que las chicas tienen piojos.

   He's still at the age where he thinks girls have cooties.

Derived terms

• despiojar
• piojo de mar

 

Descendants

• → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: pioxo

See also

• liendre f

Further reading

• “piojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16