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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -asu
- Hyphenation: chu‧ma‧ço
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium (“feather pillow”),[1][2] from plūma. Doublet of plumaço, which was borrowed from the same source.
Cognate to Galician chumaço, chomaço, and Old Spanish llumazo.
Noun
chumaço m (plural chumaços)
- (rare or Timorese) cushion
- Synonyms: almofada, travesseiro
- shoulder pad
- swelling, tumor, mass
- Synonym: inchaço
- compress; cloth used to apply pressure to wounds
- Synonym: compressa
- (Minho) pine needles
- Synonym: caruma
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
chumaço
- first-person singular present indicative of chumaçar
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