carrizo

See also: Carrizo

Galician

Carrizos

Carrizo

Carrizo

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *cariceus, from Latin cārex. Cognate with Portuguese carriço, Spanish carrizo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈriθo̝/, (western) /kaˈriso̝/

Noun

carrizo m (plural carrizos)

1. common reed (Phragmites australis)
2. Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
3. European hornet (Vespa crabro)
4. wild hop (Humulus lupulus)

Related terms

• Carraceda
• Carracedo
• Carracedos
• Carracido
• Carragal
• Carragoso
• Carregal
• Carregosa
• carrizal
• Carrizo

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carriço”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carrizo”, 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), “carrizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carrizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cariceus, from Latin carex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈriθo/ [kaˈri.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaˈriso/ [kaˈri.so]
• Rhymes: -iθo
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: ca‧rri‧zo

Noun

carrizo m (plural carrizos)

1. reed

   Synonyms: caña, junco

2. any of various plants found in reed beds
   1. Ammophila arenaria
   2. Arundo donax
   3. Elytrigia repens
   4. Phragmites australis
3. (Colombia, Venezuela, Panama) drinking straw
4. (euphemistic) penis

Derived terms

• flauta de carrizo

 

Related terms

• carrizal

 

Further reading

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