pazo

See also: Pazo and Pazó

Galician

Pazo da Touza, Nigrán, Galicia

Pazo de Oca, A Estrada, Galicia

Etymology 1

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese paaço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), form Latin palātium (“palace”). Doublet of palacio.

Alternative forms

• pacio
• paço (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaθo̝/, (western) /ˈpaso̝/

Noun

pazo m (plural pazos)

1. (architecture) mansion; residence of a noble family (more or less, equivalent to a British manor house)
   • 1473, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 32:

     aquel meu parente ou parenta de terra de lugo e val de quiroga que ao tenpo for erdeiro de aquel paazo vedraño de lousada

     that relative, man or woman, from the lands of Lugo and Valley of Quiroga that at that time was inheritor of that ancient manor of Lousada

2. (architecture) palace

Synonyms

• palacio

Related terms

• Pacio
• Pacios
• palacio
• Palacio
• Pazo
• Pazó
• Pazos

Descendants

• → Spanish: pazo

Etymology 2

Verb

pazo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pacer

See also

pazo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• "paaço" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “paaço”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pazo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pazo”, 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), “pazo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pazo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English pace, French pas, Italian passo, Spanish paso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpazo/

Noun

pazo (plural pazi)

1. step, pace, gait

Derived terms

• pazar (“to take steps, to stride, step, stalk”)
• pazetar (“to trip along, take short steps”)
• pazo granda (“stride”)
• pazo rapida (“quick time, quick march”)
• pazokontilo (“pedometer”)
• pazope (“step by step”)
• superpazar (“to step over, straddle”)
• transpazar (“to stride across”)

 

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician pazo, from Latin palātium (compare Catalan palau, French palais, Italian palazzo, Portuguese paço, equally Portuguese palácio and Romanian palat). Doublet of palacio and palazzo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈpaθo/ [ˈpa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈpaso/ [ˈpa.so]
• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: pa‧zo
• Homophone: (Latin America) paso

Noun

pazo m (plural pazos)

1. (Spain) Galician manor

Related terms

• palacio

 

Further reading

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