Feijó

Portuguese

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Feijoo, from from feijoo (“bean”). Cognate with Galician Feijóo; doublet of feijão.

The municipality in Acre is named after Brazilian politician and priest Diogo Antônio Feijó (1784–1843), whence also Regente Feijó, a municipality in São Paulo.

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐjˈʒɔ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fejˈʒɔ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /fejˈʒɔ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /feˈʒɔ/

Feijó m or f by sense

a surname from Old-Galician Portuguese
- a. 1563, João de Barros, Diogo de Couto, Da Asia de João de Barros e Diogo de Couto‎^[1], volume II, book V, chapter VIII, Lisbon: Regia Officina Typographica, published 1777, page 386:
  Paſſado eſte caſo […], como Affonſo d’Alboquerque tinha tudo preſtes pera ir ſobre Goa, partio de Cananor com vinte e tres vélas, em que entrava Diogo Mendes com os tres Capitães de ſua capitanía, e os outros eram […] Fernão Feijó […]
  After this affair had concluded […], as Afonso de Albuquerque had everything ready to depart to Goa, he left Cananor with twenty-three sail, which included Diogo Mendes with the three Captains of his captaincy, and the others were […] Fernão Feijó […]

Feijó m

a municipality of Acre, Brazil
a settlement in the city of Almada; a former civil parish of the municipality of Almada, Portugal
- 2025 June 14, Lusa, “Homem morreu baleado no Feijó, Almada, e os suspeitos estão em fuga [Man shot dead in Feijó, Almada, and suspects are on the run]”, in Público‎^[2]:
  Fonte da Direcção Nacional da PSP explicou, em declarações à agência Lusa, que o caso aconteceu cerca das 22h40, junto a um estabelecimento comercial na zona do Feijó […]
  A source from the National Directorate of the PSP explained, in statements to the Lusa news agency, that the incident took place at around 10:40 p.m., near a commercial establishment in the Feijó area […]