# ganzo
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* gancio

### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”), or directly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱank- (“branch”). Doublet of gancho.

### Pronunciation

* (standard) IPA: /ˈɡanθo̝/

### Noun

ganzo m (plural ganzos)
* (dated) dried or partially burned twig in the past used as a torch

#### Derived terms

* gancela (“kindling”)

#### Related terms

* gancho (“hook”)

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ganzo”, 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), “ganzo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ganzo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “gancho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* ↑ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157
* ↑ García Trabazo, José Virgilio (2016) “Prelatin Toponymy of Asturies: a critical review in a historical-comparative perspective”, in Lletres Asturianes‎, number 115, retrieved 14 June 2018, pages 51-71

## Italian
### Adjective

ganzo (feminine ganza, masculine plural ganzi, feminine plural ganze)
* (archaic) extra-marriage lover
* (informal, outdated, humorous) smart, clever, cool
    Synonym: figo

#### Usage notes

* The smart sense is similar to figo but with a slightly less sexual sense/component and a component of furbo (“cunning, sly”). It's a mix of brilliant, [mildly] gorgeous, [very] cool and [sort of] presumptuous.

### Anagrams

* gonza

## Portuguese
### Verb

ganzo
* first-person singular present indicative of ganzar

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

### Noun

ganzo m (plural ganzi)
* hook

#### Descendants

* → Greek: γάντζος (gántzos)
* → Serbo-Croatian: gȁnac, gȁnač (Dalmatian dialectal forms of Croatian)
* → Ottoman Turkish: قانجه (kanca, kance), قنجه (kanca, kance)
** Turkish: kanca
** → Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, “a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips”), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
*** → English: cangia
*** → French: cange
*** → Italian: cangia
**** → Spanish: canja
** → Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
** → Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
** → Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
** → Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
** → Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
** → Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
** → Romanian: cange
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̑нџа
    Latin script: kȃndža

### References

* Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 244–247