paínzo

Galician

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈinθo̝/

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

Derived terms

• Painceira
• Painceiras
• Painceiros
• Painzal
• Painzás
• Paisás
• Paizás
• Peizás

References

• “paynç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “painço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “painzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.