macizo
Galician
Alternative forms
- mocizo
- maciço (Reintegrationist)
Etymology
Attested since 1370 (maçiço), from Vulgar Latin *massīcius. By surface analysis, masa + -izo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [maˈθiθʊ]
Adjective
macizo m (feminine singular maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)
- solid
- 1753, Diego Cernadas, Adán non pudo pecar:
- consintíu nesso, ê, como hè gallego Maziso, vendo, què â redondilla, aunque era Castillana, tiña ô mismo orden, sintido, ê consonancia, nà sua lengua, trasladaria nela, por què topoù assi mais churume
- he consented, and since he is a sound Galician, seeing how the redondilla, even being Castilian, has the same order, sense and consonance in his language, he translated it, because he found in this manner more juice
- consintíu nesso, ê, como hè gallego Maziso, vendo, què â redondilla, aunque era Castillana, tiña ô mismo orden, sintido, ê consonancia, nà sua lengua, trasladaria nela, por què topoù assi mais churume
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 436:
- Et auj́a y grãdes obras maçiças de ouro fino
- And there were there large solid works of fine gold
- Et auj́a y grãdes obras maçiças de ouro fino
- 1753, Diego Cernadas, Adán non pudo pecar:
- (of milk) whole
- 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o provebios en Romance:
- No ay tal viço, como pam de trigo, e leyte mociço
- There is no such a vice like wheat bread and whole milk
- No ay tal viço, como pam de trigo, e leyte mociço
- Synonym: enteiro
- 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o provebios en Romance:
Noun
macizo m (plural macizos)
- bait
- (architecture) foundation
Derived terms
- macizar
References
- “maçiço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “maçiç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “macizo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “macizo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “macizo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
From a hypothetical earlier *massizo, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius, from Latin massa (“mass”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley cake”); see links for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /maˈθiθo/ [maˈθi.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /maˈsiso/ [maˈsi.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
- Syllabification: ma‧ci‧zo
Adjective
macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)
- solid
- massive, large
- (colloquial) hunky, dishy
- Es el hombre más macizo que mis ojos han contemplado.
- He is the hunkiest man that my eyes have contemplated.
Noun
macizo m (plural macizos)
- flowerbed
- mass, solid
- massif
- (colloquial) hunk
Verb
macizo
- first-person singular present indicative of macizar
Further reading
- “macizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014