óleo

Borrowed from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), replacing the semi-learned form oyo (13^th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔleʊ]

óleo m (plural óleos)

1. fine flour (finest portion of ground grain, as in French fleur de farine)
2. (Christianity) chrism

   Synonym: crisma

3. (art) oil, as a medium for painting
4. (dated) oil in general
   • 1409, Pensado Tomé, José Luis (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria, page 109:

     Para esto val a manteiga mesturada con olio de louro

     For this is good the butter mixed with laurel oil

• oliva
• oliveira

• aceite

• “oleo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “oyo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “olio” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “óleo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “óleo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “óleo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”), from Proto-Indo-European *loiu̯om.

• (palatised) Homophone: olho (verb form)
• Hyphenation: ó‧le‧o

óleo m (plural óleos)

1. oil (liquid substance extracted from animals, vegetals, or minerals)
2. olive oil

   Synonyms: óleo de oliva, azeite

3. oil-based paint
4. oil painting

   Synonym: pintura a óleo

5. essential oil

   Synonyms: essência, óleo essencial

• olio

Borrowed from Latin oleum[1], from Ancient Greek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoleo/ [ˈo.le.o]

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• Rhymes: -oleo
• Syllabification: ó‧le‧o

óleo m (plural óleos)

1. oil (liquid fat)

   Synonym: aceite

2. oil painting (a painting done with oil paints)
3. oil painting (the art of painting with oil paints)

• olivo

• “óleo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014