lampazo

Spanish

Etymology

From the neuter of Latin lappāceus from Latin lappa (“burdock”) which also has been confused with lapathium, lapathum (“sorrel”), compare Galician lampaza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /lamˈpaθo/ [lãmˈpa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /lamˈpaso/ [lãmˈpa.so]

Noun

lampazo m (plural lampazos)

1. burdock
2. (Argentina) mop

Descendants

• → Neapolitan: lampazzo

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001
• “lappa” in volume 7, part 2, column 954, line 11 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present