xeno

Unknown. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring”), through a local substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeno̝/

xeno m (plural xenos)

1. (cooking) secondary sprout of a cabbage, produced after the head is collected

   Synonyms: brotón, xermolo

• “xeno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xeno” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xeno” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈksɛ.no/
• Rhymes: -ɛno
• Hyphenation: xè‧no

xeno m (plural xeni)

1. (chemistry) xenon

xenō

1. dative/ablative singular of xenon

From Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Compare Old Portuguese chẽo and Old Spanish lenno, lleno.

xeno

1. full
   • 1245 document from Sahagún, in 1907, Erik Staaff, Étude sur L’Ancien Dialecte Léonais d’après des Chartes du XIII^e Siècle, Almqvist & Wiksell, page 35.

     Payares xenos de paya menuda.

     Haylofts full of chaff.

• Leonese: cheno
• Mirandese: cheno