carantoña

Attested since circa 1390. Either ultimately from Latin character, or from Celtic:^[1] compare the Galician place names Carantoña or the French river Charente.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾanˈtoɲa/
• Rhymes: -oɲa
• Hyphenation: ca‧ran‧to‧ña

carantoña f (plural carantoñas)

1. mask (especially if horrific)

   Synonyms: carauta, máscara

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:

     Et en outro dia ouverõ cõsello Calrros cõ os seus caualeiros, et mãdou enbrullar as cabeças dos caualos de lenços et encher as orellas de dentro de panos, que nẽ podesen veer as carãtonas nẽ oyr as vozes da cãpaynas.

     And another day they had a council, Charlemagne with his knights, an he ordered to wrap the heads of the horses with linens and to fill their ears with clothes, so that they could not see the masks nor hear the little bells

2. caress

   Synonym: agasallo

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

• IPA^(key): /kaɾanˈtoɲa/
• Rhymes: -oɲa
• Syllabification: ca‧ran‧to‧ña

carantoña f (plural carantoñas)

1. caress

   Synonyms: cariño, caricia

2. sweet talk

   Synonym: zalamería

• “carantoña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10