carantoña

Galician

carantoñas, from Chantada

carantoñas: pantallas from Xinzo de Limia

Etymology

Attested since circa 1390. Either ultimately from Latin character, or from Celtic: compare the Galician place names Carantoña or the French river Charente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaɾanˈtoɲɐ]

Noun

carantoña f (plural carantoñas)

1. mask, specially if horrific

   Synonyms: carauta, máscara

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:

     Et en outro dia ouverõ cõsello Calrros cõ os seus caualeiros, et mãdou enbrullar as cabeças dos caualos de lenços et encher as orellas de dentro de panos, que nẽ podesen veer as carãtonas nẽ oyr as vozes da cãpaynas.

     And another day they had a council, Charlemagne with his knights, an he ordered to wrap the heads of the horses with linens and to fill their ears with clothes, so that they could not see the masks nor hear the little bells

2. caress

Related terms

• Carantoña

References

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

Spanish

Noun

carantoña f (plural carantoñas)

1. caress
2. sweet talk

Further reading

• “carantoña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014