roxo

Meaning

Adj

1. having purple as its color
2. being bruised
3. (figuratively) overcome with envy; green
4. (archaic) red

Noun

1. (masculine) purple (colour)
2. (archaic,masculine) red (colour)

Hyphenated as

ro‧xo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʁo.ʃu/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese roxo (“dark red”), from Latin russeus (“dark red”), from russus (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Cognate with Galician roxo (“reddish-brown”), Spanish rojo (“red”), Catalan ros (“blond”), Occitan ros (“russet”), French roux (“russet”), Italian rosso (“red”) and Romanian roșu (“red”).