mozo

mozo

See also: Mozo, mōzõ, možo, and móžo

English

Etymology

From Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊzəʊ/, /ˈmoθo/

Noun

mozo (plural mozos)

1. A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:

     When he rode up to the gerente’s house that morning he was accompanied by four friends and by a retinue of mozos and two packanimals saddled with hardwood kiacks, one empty, the other carrying their noon provisions.

2. A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
3. An unmarried man, a boy. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Anagrams

• Zoom, zoom

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Asturian

Adjective

mozo

1. neuter of mozu

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese moço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of unknown origin. Cognate with Portuguese moço, Asturian mozu, and Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoθo̝/, (western) /ˈmoso̝/

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy; teenager; young man; single man

   Synonyms: homiño, rapaz

2. boyfriend

   Xa é unha mulleriña; mesmo botou mozo.

   She's already a young lady; she even has a boyfriend now.

   Synonym: noivo

3. (archaic) junior (person that is younger than other person)
   • 1485, M. Lucas Álvarez and P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada: Edicións do Castro, page 709:

     Vasco d'Oseve o mozo, fillo de Vasco d'Oseve o vello

     Vasco de Oseve junior, son of Vasco de Oseve senior

Derived terms

• mociño

Adjective

mozo m (feminine singular moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young; younger

   Alá foron os anos mozos!

   The young years are over!

References

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

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Potawatomi

Etymology

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Noun

mozo

1. moose

Inflection

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• moço (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain, probably ultimately identical with muchacho (cf. mocho), or from Latin musteus (“must-like, of new wine, fresh”), from musteum, from mustum. Other theories include a pre-Roman origin. Compare Portuguese moço, Galician mozo, Asturian mozu. Cf. also Catalan mosso (taken from Spanish) and motxo. There may alternatively be a link to Italian mozzo (“cut off, docked”), French mousse (“blunt”), or Basque motz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈmoθo/ [ˈmo.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈmoso/ [ˈmo.so]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -oθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: mo‧zo

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy, lad, young man, youth
2. servant, helper, steward, manservant
3. (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru) waiter, server

   Synonym: camarero

4. cat, tomcat

Derived terms

• aeromozo
• mozo de espadas

Descendants

• → Catalan: mosso
• → Italian: mozzo
• → Yosondúa Mixtec: musu

Adjective

mozo (feminine moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young, youthful
2. unmarried

Further reading

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