Masculine

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

Cognate with Portuguese

fojo

Cognate with Galician

foxo

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Spanish

Masculine

hoyo

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Hyphenated as

ho‧yo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈoʝo/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin

fovea