tijolo

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === tijollo, tejolo (obsolete) === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Spanish tejuelo, from tejo. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Porto) IPA(key): [tiˈʒwɐ.lu] Rhymes: -olu Hyphenation: ti‧jo‧lo ==== Noun ==== tijolo m (plural tijolos, metaphonic) brick building block of mud, clay etc. considered collectively as a building material (usually humorous, figurative) anything brickshaped (printing, publishing) colophon Synonym: colofão (informal, humorous, figurative) doorstop (large book) Synonyms: alfarrábio, (Brazil) calhamaço (Brazil, typography) a compact composition with no lead paragraph and few stops Synonym: (Brazil) catatau (Brazil, informal) wall of text Synonym: (Portugal) testamento (Brazil, soccer, informal) a strong shot that is hard to catch Synonyms: tijolada, pelotaço, bomba (Northeast Brazil) A sweet made from rapadura and doce de leite, sold in bricks. (São Paulo, slang, obsolete) dating, relationship ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Adjective ==== tijolo m or f (plural tijolos) brick, brick red (brownish-red colour) ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:tijolo. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: ti‧jo‧lo ==== Verb ==== tijolo first-person singular present indicative of tijolar === References === === Further reading === tijolo on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt “tijolo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “tijolo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “tijolo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN