hoyo

See also: hōyō

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fovea, with a change in gender or possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *foveum. Compare Portuguese fojo, Galician foxo, Asturian fueyu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈoʝo/ [ˈo.ʝo]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈoʃo/ [ˈo.ʃo]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈoʒo/ [ˈo.ʒo]

Rhymes: -oʝo
Syllabification: ho‧yo

Noun

hoyo m (plural hoyos)

hole
Synonym: agujero
(golf) hole

Derived terms

Related terms

hoya

See also

Further reading

“hoyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Warao

Noun

hoyo

stone

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