mazo

See also: Mazo, mazó, and mažo

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese maço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from maza (“mallet”). Cognate with Portuguese maço and Spanish mazo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaθo/ [ˈma.θʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈmaθo/ [ˈma.θʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈmaso/ [ˈma.sʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -aθo

• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso

• Hyphenation: ma‧zo

Noun

mazo m (plural mazos)

1. mallet
2. large forge hammer
3. (by extension) forge, blacksmith's workshop
4. deck, bundle, wad

Derived terms

• Mazo, Mazos

Related terms

• maza
• mazola

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “maço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “maço”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mazo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mazo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mazo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

mazo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mazar

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /màː.zóː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [màː.zóː]

Noun

mā̀zō m (possessed form mā̀zon)

1. bushbuck

Latvian

Adjective

mazo

1. inflection of mazs:
   1. definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
   2. definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaθo/ [ˈma.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmaso/ [ˈma.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ma‧zo

Etymology 1

From maza.

Noun

mazo m (plural mazos)

1. hammer (tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)

   Synonym: martillo

2. mallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head)
3. gavel (wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, committee chairman, or auctioneer)
4. pestle (club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar)
5. (card games) deck (pack or set of playing cards)
6. handful, bunch (group or number of things)

Derived terms

• a Dios rogando y con el mazo dando
• mazazo

Adverb

mazo

1. (Madrid, Spain) heaps, a lot; (UK) loads, tons

Etymology 2

Verb

mazo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mazar

Further reading

• “mazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024