# mozo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mozo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈməʊzəʊ/, /ˈmoθo/

### Noun

mozo (plural mozos)
* A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.
** 1931, Hart Crane, letter, 2 June:
    I found, by advice, that single mozos weren't apt to be much good.
** 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:When he rode up to the gerente’s house that morning he was accompanied by four friends and by a retinue of mozos and two packanimals saddled with hardwood kiacks, one empty, the other carrying their noon provisions.
* A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
* An unmarried man, a boy. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

### Anagrams

* Zoom, zoom

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoθo/ [ˈmo.θo]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

mozo
* neuter of mozu

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese moço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of unknown origin. Cognate with Portuguese moço, Asturian mozu, and Spanish mozo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoθo̝/, (western) /ˈmoso̝/

### Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)
* boy; teenager; young man; single man
    Synonyms: homiño, rapaz
* boyfriend
    Synonym: noivo
    Xa é unha mulleriña; mesmo botou mozo.She's already a young lady; she even has a boyfriend now.
* (archaic) junior (person that is younger than other person)
** 1485, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada: Edicións do Castro, page 709:Vasco d'Oseve o mozo, fillo de Vasco d'Oseve o velloVasco de Oseve junior, son of Vasco de Oseve senior

#### Derived terms

* mociño

### Adjective

mozo (feminine moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)
* young; younger
    Alá foron os anos mozos!The young years are over!

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “moço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “moço”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mozo”, 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), “mozo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mozo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Potawatomi
### Etymology

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### Noun

mozo
* moose

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* moço (obsolete)

### Etymology

Uncertain, probably ultimately identical with muchacho (cf. mocho), or from Latin musteus (“must-like, of new wine, fresh”), from musteum, from mustum. Other theories include a pre-Roman origin. Compare Portuguese moço, Galician mozo, Asturian mozu. Cf. also Catalan mosso (taken from Spanish) and motxo. There may alternatively be a link to Italian mozzo (“cut off, docked”), French mousse (“blunt”), or Basque motz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈmoθo/ [ˈmo.θo]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈmoso/ [ˈmo.so]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oθo
* Rhymes: -oso
* Syllabification: mo‧zo

### Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)
* boy, lad, young man, youth
* servant, helper, steward, manservant
    Synonyms: sirviente, ayudante
* (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru) waiter, server
    Synonym: camarero
* cat, tomcat
    Synonym: gato

#### Derived terms

* aeromozo
* mozo de caballos
* mozo de cordel
* mozo de cuerda
* mozo de espadas
* mozo de espuela
* mozo de esquina
* mozo de estoques
* mozo de mulas
* mozo de oficio

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: mosso
* → Italian: mozzo
* → Yosondúa Mixtec: musu

### Adjective

mozo (feminine moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)
* young, youthful
    Synonyms: juvenil, joven
* unmarried
    Synonym: soltero

#### Further reading

* “mozo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10