macizo

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)

1. 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

   • 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

2. (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

   Synonym: enteiro

Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)

1. bait
2. (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.

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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)

1. solid
2. massive, large
3. (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)

1. flowerbed
2. mass, solid
3. massif
4. (colloquial) hunk

Verb

macizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of macizar

Further reading

• “macizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014