paínzo

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paínzo (Panicum miliaceum)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *paĩço (Old Galician-Portuguese painço, peinço), from Late Latin pānīcium, from Latin pānīcum, from pānus (ear of millet). Cognate with Portuguese painço and Spanish panizo.

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Noun

paínzo m (plural paínzos)

  1. millet, foxtail millet; any grass in the genus Panicum
    • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 529:
      Et ualia a liura do trijgo en graao hũu marauedi et medeo, et da ceuada hũu morauedi et oitaua, et do painço hũu morauedi meos quarta
      And a pound of wheat worthed a maravedi and a half, and of barley a maravedi and an octave, and of millet a maravedi minus a quarter

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