sacho

See also: sachó and sachǫ

Galician

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *sarclum, from Latin sarculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsat͡ʃo/ [ˈs̺a̠.t͡ʃʊ]
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Hyphenation: sa‧cho

Noun

sacho m (plural sachos)

1. kind of hoe or mattock (agricultural tool)
   • 1428, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 319:

     labrar de todas lauorias et de estercamento et çaramento et mondamento et sacho

     to work [this land] in every labour, and to fertilize it, and to enclose it, and to weed it, and [to use] the hoe

Derived terms

• sachar (“to weed, to hoe”)

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sacho”, 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), “sacho”, 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), “sacho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sacho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

sacho

1. first-person singular present indicative of sachar

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

sacho

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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sarclum, from Latin sarculum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ʃu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ʃu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.t͡ʃu/

• Hyphenation: sa‧cho

Noun

sacho m (plural sachos)

1. mattock (agricultural tool)

Verb

sacho

1. first-person singular present indicative of sachar

Related terms

• sachar
• sachadura, sacha
• sachador

Further reading

• “sacho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sacho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Verb

sacho

1. first-person singular present indicative of sachar

Further reading

• “sacho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025