macizo

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese maciço, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius. By surface analysis, masa +‎ -izo.

Alternative forms

• mocizo
• mociço (Middle Galician, reintegrationist)
• maciço (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maˈθiθʊ]

Adjective

macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)

1. solid
   • 1753, Diego Cernadas, Adán non pudo pecar:

     consintíu nesso, ê, como hè gallego Maziso, vendo, què â redondilla, aunque era Castillana, tiña ô mismo orden, sintido, ê consonancia, nà sua lengua, trasladaria nela, por què topoù assi mais churume

     he consented, and since he is a sound Galician, seeing how the redondilla, even being Castilian, has the same order, sense and consonance in his language, he translated it, because he found in this manner more juice

2. (of milk) whole

   Synonym: enteiro

   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o provebios en Romance:

     No ay tal viço, como pam de trigo, e leyte mociço

     There is no such a vice like wheat bread and whole milk

Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)

1. bait
2. (architecture) foundation

Derived terms

• macizar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “maçiço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maçiç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “macizo”, 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), “macizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “macizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

macizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of macizar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /maˈθiθo/ [maˈθi.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈsiso/ [maˈsi.so]
• Rhymes: -iθo
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: ma‧ci‧zo

Etymology 1

From a hypothetical earlier *massizo, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius, from Latin massa (“mass”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley cake”); see links for more. The sense “massif” is a semantic loan from French massif, which is cognate.

Adjective

macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)

1. solid
2. massive, large
3. (colloquial) hunky, dishy

   Es el hombre más macizo que mis ojos han contemplado.

   He is the hunkiest man that my eyes have contemplated.

Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)

1. flowerbed
2. mass, solid
3. massif
4. (colloquial) hunk

Etymology 2

Verb

macizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of macizar

Further reading

• “macizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28