lampazo

Spanish

Etymology

From the neuter of Latin lappāceus from Latin lappa (“burdock”) which also has been confused with lapathium, lapathum (“sorrel”), compare Galician lampaza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /lamˈpaθo/ [lãmˈpa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /lamˈpaso/ [lãmˈpa.so]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: lam‧pa‧zo

Noun

lampazo m (plural lampazos)

1. burdock
2. (Argentina, Nicaragua, Philippines) mop
3. (Uruguay) squeegee mop (the tool Uruguayans prefer for mopping)

   Synonyms: secador de piso, (Mexico) jalador, (Cuba, Venezuela) haragán

Derived terms

• lampazo menor

 

Descendants

• → Basque: lanbas
• → Neapolitan: lampazzo

Further reading

• “lampazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “lappa” in volume 7, part 2, column 954, line 11 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present