piojo

Inherited from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, from pēdis, from Proto-Indo-European *pezd-. Compare Portuguese piolho. Doublet of pedículo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjoxo/ [ˈpjo.xo]

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• Rhymes: -oxo
• Syllabification: pio‧jo

piojo m (plural piojos)

1. a louse, a cootie (a kind of parasitic insect, lice)

   Todavía está en la edad en que cree que las chicas tienen piojos.

   He's still at the age where he thinks girls have cooties.

• → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: pioxo

• liendre f

• “piojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28