canizo

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See also: cañizo

Galician

Galician carro with a mounted canizo (wattled lateral)

Canastro, cabazo, canizo

Alternative forms

caínzo, caízo, queínzo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caniço, from Vulgar Latin *cannicium, from canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese caniço, Spanish cañizo, Catalan canyís.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈniθo̝/, (western) /kaˈniso̝/

Noun

canizo m (plural canizos)

wattle (a construction of branches and twigs woven together)
1. lateral wall of a cart or wagon
  Synonym: ladral
2. wattle which, hanging horizontally from the kitchen's ceiling, near or over the fireplace, is used to dry and preserve chestnuts, chourizos and other foods, whilst preventing the sparks of reaching the ceiling
3. loft
  - 1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:
    Galán que estás no canizo
    bota castañas pra baixo
    que anque non teño mandil
    apárochas no refaixo.
    Gallant up there in the loft
    throw some chestnuts down,
    even if I have no apron
    I'll catch them with my petticoat
4. small wattled granary
  Synonym: cabazo
5. (regional, by extension) granary
  Synonym: hórreo
6. wattle used to level the ground

Derived terms

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “caniço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caniç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canizo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “canizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “caña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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