tejado

/teˈxado/ · B1 · noun · m

roof

tejado — roof

🏠 teja (tile) + -ado = tiled; teja and English tile share Latin tegula

Tejado is built from teja, a roof tile, plus the suffix -ado, so it means something covered in tiles. Teja comes from Latin tegula, which also gave English the word tile. Stress falls on -XA-: te-HA-do.

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