mallo

See also: Mallo and malló

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʎo̝/

Etymology 1

From Latin malleus (“mallet”).

Noun

mallo m (plural mallos)

1. large mallet; sledgehammer
   • 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 139:

     em casa de Tare estaua aymage de Ulcano, feyta amaneyra de ferreyro, et hũ grande mallo ẽnas [maaos]

     in Tare's house there was an image of Vulcan, made in the manner of a blacksmith, holding a large hammer in his hands

Derived terms

• mallar
• mallega
• malleira

Etymology 2

a reenactment

From malle (“flail”), from Latin manualis (“manual”), influenced by Latin malleus (“hammer”). Cognate with Portuguese mangual. Alternative forms include manlle, manle, mal.

Noun

mallo m (plural mallos)

1. flail
2. handle of the flail

   Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mallo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “mallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -allo

Noun

mallo m (plural malli)

1. cupule
2. (botany) husk, hull, shell

Anagrams

• molla

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μαλλός (mallós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.loː/, [ˈmälːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.lo/, [ˈmälːo]

Noun

mallō m (genitive mallōnis); third declension

1. The stem of onions
2. (pathology) A kind of tumor on the knees of animals

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mallō	mallōnēs
Genitive	mallōnis	mallōnum
Dative	mallōnī	mallōnibus
Accusative	mallōnem	mallōnēs
Ablative	mallōne	mallōnibus
Vocative	mallō	mallōnēs

References

• “mallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mallo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin malleus.

Noun

mallo m (plural mallos)

1. mallet
2. a kind of game