mazo

mazo

See also: Mazo, mazó, and mažo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese maço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from maza (“mallet”). Cognate with Portuguese maço and Spanish mazo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaθo̝/, (western) /ˈmaso̝/

Noun

mazo m (plural mazos)

1. mallet
2. large forge hammer
3. (by extension) forge, blacksmith's workshop
4. deck, bundle, wad

Derived terms

• Mazo
• Mazos

Related terms

• maza
• mazola

References

• “maço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “maço” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mazo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mazo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mazo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /màː.zóː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [màː.zóː]

Noun

mā̀zō m (possessed form mā̀zon)

1. bushbuck

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Latvian

Adjective

mazo

1. vocative singular masculine form of mazais
2. accusative singular masculine form of mazais
3. instrumental singular masculine form of mazais
4. genitive plural masculine form of mazais
5. vocative singular feminine form of mazais
6. accusative singular feminine form of mazais
7. instrumental singular feminine form of mazais
8. genitive plural feminine form of mazais

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Spanish

Etymology

From maza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈmaθo/ [ˈma.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈmaso/ [ˈma.so]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: ma‧zo

Noun

mazo m (plural mazos)

1. hammer (tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)

   Synonym: martillo

2. mallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head)
3. gavel (wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, committee chairman, or auctioneer)
4. pestle (club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar)
5. (card games) deck (pack or set of playing cards)
6. handful, bunch (group or number of things)

Derived terms

• a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando
• mazazo

 

Adverb

mazo

1. (Madrid, Spain) heaps, a lot; (UK) loads, tons

Verb

mazo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mazar

Further reading

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