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Galician
Adjective
maciço (feminine maciça, masculine plural maciços, feminine plural maciças, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of macizo
Noun
maciço m (plural maciços, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of macizo
References
- “maciço” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Old Galician-Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
maciço
- solid
1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 436:Et auj́a y grãdes obras maçiças de ouro fino- And there were there large solid works of fine gold
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese maciço, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius. By surface analysis, massa + -iço. Compare Spanish macizo. Doublet of massivo. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. sense “massif”: semantic loan? cf. Spanish, French
Pronunciation
Adjective
maciço (feminine maciça, masculine plural maciços, feminine plural maciças)
- solid
- (relational) mass
Noun
maciço m (plural maciços)
- (geography) massif
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