comezo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese começo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); back-formation from comezar. Compare Portuguese começo and Spanish comienzo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmɛθo̝/, (western) /koˈmeso̝/

Noun

comezo m (plural comezos)

1. beginning, start, origin

   Synonyms: empezo, inicio, orixe, principio

Derived terms

• Boncomezo (literally “Good Start”) (a village)
• de comezo

Related terms

• comezar

Further reading

• “comezo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “começo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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