uzo
Esperanto
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈuzo/
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- Hyphenation: uz‧o
Synonyms
    
Olukumi
    
    Etymology
    
From ú- (“nominalizing prefix”) + zó (“to dance”). Compare with Yoruba ujó, ijó, uzó, Igala ídó,. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *ú-jó, *í-jó from Proto-Edekiri *ú-jó, *í-jó.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ú.zó/
Derived terms
    
- ẹnúzó (“musician”)
Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
Inherited from Old Spanish uço, from Latin ōstium.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈuθo/ [ˈu.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈuso/ [ˈu.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -uθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -uso
- Syllabification: u‧zo
Noun
    
uzo m (plural uzos)
- door, shutter
- 1200, anonymous author, Cantar del mio Cid:- Vio puertas vacías y uzos sin candados, alcándaras vacías y sin pieles y sin mantos, y sin halcones y sin azores mudados.- He saw empty doors and shutters without locks, empty clotheslines with neither pelts or cloaks, nor falcons or molting goshawks.
 
 
 
Further reading
    
“uzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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