canizo

See also: cañizo

Galician

Galician carro with a mounted canizo (wattled lateral)

Canastro, cabazo, canizo

Alternative forms

• caínzo, caízo, queínzo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caniço, from Vulgar Latin *cannicium, from canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese caniço, Spanish cañizo, Catalan canyís.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈniθo̝/, (western) /kaˈniso̝/

Noun

canizo m (plural canizos)

1. wattle (a construction of branches and twigs woven together)
   1. lateral wall of a cart or wagon

      Synonym: ladral

   2. wattle which, hanging horizontally from the kitchen's ceiling, near or over the fireplace, is used to dry and preserve chestnuts, chourizos and other foods, whilst preventing the sparks of reaching the ceiling
   3. loft
      • 1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:

        Galán que estás no canizo
        bota castañas pra baixo
        que anque non teño mandil
        apárochas no refaixo.

        Gallant up there in the loft
        throw some chestnuts down,
        even if I have no apron
        I'll catch them with my petticoat

   4. small wattled granary

      Synonym: cabazo

   5. (regional, by extension) granary

      Synonym: hórreo

   6. wattle used to level the ground

Derived terms

• Cainceira
• Cainzada
• caniceira
• caniza
• canizada
• Canizo

 

References

• “caniço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “caniç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “canizo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “canizo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canizo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.