ganzo

See also: ganzō

Galician

Alternative forms

• gancio

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”), or directly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱank- (“branch”). Doublet of gancho.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡanθo̝/

Noun

ganzo m (plural ganzos)

1. (dated) dried or partially burned twig in the past used as a torch

Derived terms

• gancela (“kindling”)

Related terms

• gancho (“hook”)

References

• “ganzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ganzo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ganzo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Adjective

ganzo (feminine ganza, masculine plural ganzi, feminine plural ganze)

1. (archaic) extra-marriage lover
2. (informal) smart, clever, cool

   Synonym: figo

Usage notes

• The smart sense is similar to figo but with a slightly less sexual sense/component and a component of furbo (“cunning, sly”). It's a mix of brilliant, [mildly] gorgeous, [very] cool and [sort of] presumptuous.

Anagrams

• gonza

Portuguese

Verb

ganzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ganzar

Venetian

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

Noun

ganzo m (plural ganzi)

1. hook

Descendants

• → Dalmatian: gȁnac
• → Greek: γάντζος (gántzos)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قانجه (kanca, kance), قنجه (kanca, kance)
  • Turkish: kanca
  • → Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, “a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips”), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
    • → English: cangia
    • → French: cange
    • → Italian: cangia
      • → Spanish: canja
  • → Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
  • → Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
  • → Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
  • → Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
  • → Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
  • → Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
  • → Romanian: cange
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка̑нџа

    Latin script: kȃndža

References

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 244–247