pozo

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ozo
• Hyphenation: po‧zo

pozo (accusative singular pozon, plural pozoj, accusative plural pozojn)

1. a pose (for painting, photo)

• pozi (“to pose”)

• poço (Reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese poço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin puteus. Cognate with Portuguese poço and Spanish pozo.

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• Hyphenation: po‧zo

pozo m (plural pozos)

1. well (hole in the ground as a source of water)
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     Outrosy mandamos que o dicto Martin Bezerra et sua moller nen sua voz nen outro algun non posan fazer poço nen sacar agoa nen fazer algibe nen çistrenna nen otra cousa semellante para teer agoa por maneyra de bastimento dentro en a dicta casa noua nen arredor dela trijnta couedos.

     Also, we command that neither the aforementioned Martin Becerra, nor his wife, nor their successors, nor anyone, could make a well, or extract water, or make a reservoir, or a cistern, or any other such thing for having water as a utility inside the mentioned new house, nor around it for thirty cubits.

2. a deep pool in the course of a river
3. small reservoir or pool

   Synonyms: piago, poza

• Pozo
• Pozo Negro
• Pozos

• poza

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

Inherited from Old Spanish poço, itself from Latin puteus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). Compare Portuguese poço, Galician pozo and English pit.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈpoθo/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈposo/

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• Rhymes: -oθo
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: po‧zo

pozo m (plural pozos)

1. well (hole in the ground as a source of water or other fluids)

• “pozo”, 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