Masculine
🐂

boi

Meaning

  1. (masculine) ox
  2. (derogatory, masculine) corpulent person
  3. (Brazil, derogatory, figuratively, masculine) cuckold (man married to an unfaithful wife)
  4. (derogatory, masculine) ugly person
  5. (Northeast-Brazil, colloquial, masculine) menstruation
  6. (Brazil, masculine, slang) toilet

Concepts

ox
🐂
steer
bovine
bullock
bullocks
ox
🐂
cow
🐮
nosebag
oxen
steers

wild ox

cattle

beef animal

bovine animal

bull
calf
beef
Synonyms

animal bovino

cavalo
A2
🐴
burro
B2
🫏
gado
B2
jumento
🫏
mula
C2
toiro
touro
C1
vaca
B2
🐮

bezerro castrado

bezerra terneira

bezerro terneiro

bovino
Translations

buey
🐂
bœuf
🐂
Ochse
🐂
bue
🐂
os
🐂
bou
🐂
bos

βόδι

öküz
boeuf
manzo
bove
🐂
rund
brau
Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈboj/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin
Latin
bos
Cognate with Galician
Galician
boi
In summary

PIE word *gʷṓws Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs, itself a borrowing from some Osco-Umbrian language dialect, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Compare Galician boi. Doublet of bife.

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