mocho
Chamicuro
Noun
mocho
- navel
Portuguese
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Mocho (Athene noctua)
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from Spanish mocho, which could be from Latin mutilus. Also see Spanish mochuelo (“little owl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmo.ʃu/
- Hyphenation: mo‧cho
Noun
mocho m (plural mochos)
- owl, little owl
Derived terms
- mocho-d'orelhas
- mocho-galego
- mocho-pequeno
Adjective
mocho (feminine mocha, masculine plural mochos, feminine plural mochas)
- (of a horned animal) lacking one of the horns
- mutilated
See also
- bufo
- coruja
References
- “mocho” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmot͡ʃo/ [ˈmo.t͡ʃo]
- Rhymes: -otʃo
- Syllabification: mo‧cho
Etymology 1
Probably imitative, or possibly from Latin mutilus, cognate with Italian mozzo, Portuguese mocho, French moche.
Adjective
mocho (feminine mocha, masculine plural mochos, feminine plural mochas)
- mutilated, incomplete
- Synonym: trunco
- Antonyms: completo, entero
- hornless (of an animal that ordinarily has horns)
- Synonym: descornado
- Antonym: astado
- (Mexico, slang) having a hypocritical and ostentatious faith
- Synonym: santurrón
- cut very short (of hair, a pencil, etc.)
- bald (with a shaved head)
Related terms
- desmochar
- mocha
- mochar
- mochuelo
Descendants
- → Catalan: motxo
Noun
mocho m (plural mochos)
- mop
- Synonym: fregona
Descendants
- → Italian: mocio
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mocho
- first-person singular present indicative of mochar
Further reading
- “mocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN