Where does “rijo” come from?
rijo (Portuguese) comes from Latin rigidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
rijo (Portuguese): hard, tough, stiff, wiry
Ancestry of “rijo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | rigidus | stiff, rigid, hard, inflexible; stern, strict,... |
| 2 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |