colmazo

Galician

a Galician hórreo with thatched roof (colmazo)

Etymology

Attested in 14th-century documents as colmaça (feminine); from colmo (“thatch”) + -azo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolmaθo̝/

Noun

colmazo m (plural colmazos)

1. thatched roof

   Synonym: colmado

Adjective

colmazo (feminine colmaza, masculine plural colmazos, feminine plural colmazas)

1. having a thatched roof
   • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernandez (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 38:

     Jtem hũa cassa en Padrõ, meadade tellada et meadade colmaça

     Item, a house in Padrón, half of it is tilled, the other half thatched

   Synonyms: pallaza, palloza

Derived terms

• colmaceiro

Related terms

• colmo

References

• “colmaç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “colmazo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “colmazo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.