toldo

toldo

1. first-person singular present indicative of toldar

Apparently related to tola (“grape stalk”), which Kluge compares to Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome”), θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom, sprout”).

toldo ?

1. top, crown (of tree/plant)

• Middle High German: tolde
  • German: Dolde

Probably related to the Spanish below, but compare Arabic [script needed] (dholla).^[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. is it ظلة?

• Hyphenation: tol‧do

toldo m (plural toldos)

1. awning (a rooflike cover extended over or before any place)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoldo/ [ˈt̪ol̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -oldo
• Syllabification: tol‧do

Apparently from Old French tialz (“area between the stern and mainmast, awning”), borrowed from Old Norse tjald or another Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *teldą.

See also Middle Dutch telt, Old High German zelt and Old Norse tjald. Cognate with English tilt (“tent fabric and covering”).

toldo m (plural toldos)

1. awning, (loosely) canopy
   • 2021 August 26, Eva Saiz, “Los desenterradores de la memoria en la fosa de Pico Reja”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Estudian los cadáveres que yacen entre la arcilla rojiza y los ya dispuestos sobre unas mesas protegidas por toldos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (Rioplatense, Bolivia) lean-to, wigwam (a simple structure made by indigenous people as housing)

toldo

1. first-person singular present indicative of toldar

• “toldo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024