canizo

See also: cañizo

Galician
Galician carro with a mounted canizo (wattled lateral)
Canastro, cabazo, canizo

Alternative forms
  • caínzo, caízo, queínzo

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese caniço, from Vulgar Latin *cannicium, from canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese caniço, Spanish cañizo, Catalan canyís.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaˈniθo̝/, (western) /kaˈniso̝/

Noun

canizo m (plural canizos)

  1. wattle (a construction of branches and twigs woven together)
    1. lateral wall of a cart or wagon
      Synonym: ladral
    2. wattle which, hanging horizontally from the kitchen's ceiling, near or over the fireplace, is used to dry and preserve chestnuts, chourizos and other foods
    3. small wattled granary
      Synonym: cabazo
    4. (regional, by extension) granary
      Synonym: hórreo
    5. wattle used to level the ground

Derived terms
  • caniceira
  • caniza
  • canizada
  • Canizo

References
  • “caniço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “caniç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “canizo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “canizo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “canizo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. caña.
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