matanza

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish matanza (“slaughter”), from matar (“to kill”).

Noun

matanza (plural matanzas)

1. (US, Western US) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “matanza”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Asturian

Noun

matanza f (plural matances)

1. kill (act of killing)
2. killing
3. slaughter

Related terms

• matar

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Galician

Matanza dos Inocentes ("Massacre of the Innocents")

Etymology

Matar (“to kill”) +‎ -anza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈtanθa̝/, (western) /maˈtansa̝/

Noun

matanza f (plural matanzas)

1. kill (act of killing)
2. massacre, slaughter
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana, page 621:

     desque õme fuj formado, nũca ueu tal matança nẽ tal marteyro cõmo era sóbrelos de Troya

     since the man was made, he never saw such a slaughter nor such a martyrdom as that that was befalling the Trojans

Derived terms

• Matanza
• matanza do porco

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “matança”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “matanza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Noun

matanza f (plural matanzas)

1. a slaughter, a killing

Related terms

• matar (verb)

See also

• sacrificio m