macizo

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese maciço, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius. By surface analysis, masa +‎ -izo.

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Pronunciation

Adjective

macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)

  1. solid
    • 1753, Diego Cernadas, Adán non pudo pecar:
      consintíu nesso, ê, como hè gallego Maziso, vendo, què â redondilla, aunque era Castillana, tiña ô mismo orden, sintido, ê consonancia, nà sua lengua, trasladaria nela, por què topoù assi mais churume
      he consented, and since he is a sound Galician, seeing how the redondilla, even being Castilian, has the same order, sense and consonance in his language, he translated it, because he found in this manner more juice
  2. (of milk) whole
    Synonym: enteiro
    • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o provebios en Romance:
      No ay tal viço, como pam de trigo, e leyte mociço
      There is no such a vice like wheat bread and whole milk

Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)

  1. bait
  2. (architecture) foundation
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Etymology 2

Verb

macizo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of macizar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /maˈθiθo/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈsiso/
  • Rhymes: -iθo
  • Rhymes: -iso
  • Syllabification: ma‧ci‧zo

Etymology 1

From a hypothetical earlier *massizo, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius, from Latin massa (mass), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, barley cake); see links for more. The sense “massif” is a semantic loan from French massif, which is cognate.

Adjective

macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)

  1. solid
  2. massive, large
  3. (colloquial) hunky, dishy
    Es el hombre más macizo que mis ojos han contemplado.
    He is the hunkiest man that my eyes have contemplated.

Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)

  1. flowerbed
  2. mass, solid
  3. massif
  4. (colloquial) hunk

Etymology 2

Verb

macizo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of macizar

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