maio

From Old Galician-Portuguese mayo, from Latin Maius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmajo/ [ˈma̠.jʊ]
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: ma‧io

maio m (plural maios)

1. May

   Maio me molla, maio me enxuga, con raza de sol e raza de chuvia (traditional song)

   May soaks me, May makes me dry, with rays of sun and gusts of rain

2. (in the plural) traditional celebration held the first day of May
3. vegetable construction made for this celebration
4. person that during the aforementioned feast covers his or her clothes with flowers and twigs
5. traditional song sing during the celebrations held the first day of May

• Festa dos maios on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mayo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mayo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “maio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

maio (plural maios)

1. May (month)

• Maio (pre-1990 spelling, Portugal)
• Mayo, mayo (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mayo, from Latin Maius.

• Rhymes: -aju
• Hyphenation: mai‧o

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maio m (plural maios)

1. May

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: mai
• Kabuverdianu: mai, maiu
• → Tetum: maiu