regazo

Galician

A Galician traditional kitchen oven

Alternative forms

• garrazo, rogazo
• regaço (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese regaço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back formation from regaçar (Modern Galician arregazar). Compare Portuguese regaço and Spanish regazo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /reˈɡaθo/ [reˈɣ̞ɑ.θʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /reˈɡaθo/ [reˈɣ̞ɑ.θʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /reˈħaθo/ [reˈħɑ.θʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada and seseo) /reˈħaso/ [reˈħɑ.sʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -aθo

• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso

• Hyphenation: re‧ga‧zo

Noun

regazo m (plural regazos)

1. lap

   Synonym: colo

2. projecting ledge before the door of a wood oven

   Synonym: regazal

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “regaço”, 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), “regaço”, 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), “regazo”, 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), “regazo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “regazo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “regazo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈɡaθo/ [reˈɣ̞a.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /reˈɡaso/ [reˈɣ̞a.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: re‧ga‧zo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from regazar.

Noun

regazo m (plural regazos)

1. lap (the upper legs of a seated person)

Derived terms

• arregazar

Etymology 2

Verb

regazo

1. first-person singular present indicative of regazar

Further reading

• “regazo”, 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