rexo

From Old Galician-Portuguese rigio (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rigidus (“rigid”), from rigeō (“I am stiff”). Doublet of recio and ríxido.

Cognate with Portuguese rijo.

rexo (feminine rexa, masculine plural rexos, feminine plural rexas)

rexo

strongly, firmly
Anda rexo! ― Walk fast!
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 200:
  Et en lle sayndo o sange et abalandose moy de rrejo, espertarõse os rromeus et pregũtarõlle que avia.
  And, with the blood coming out from him and he shaking very strongly, the pilgrims awoke and asked him what he had

rexo m (plural rexos)

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Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rejo”, 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), “rexo”, 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), “rexo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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