queijo
Meaning
cheese (dairy product)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
quei‧jo
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈke(j).ʒu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese queijo (“cheese”), from Latin cāseus (“cheese”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“to ferment, become sour”). Cognate with Galician queixo, Spanish queso, Italian cacio, Romanian caș and English cheese.
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