Masculine
piojo
a louse, a cootie (a kind of parasitic insect, lice)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pio‧jo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpjoxo/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, from pēdis, from Proto-Indo-European *pezd-. Compare Portuguese piolho. Doublet of pedículo.
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