# macizo
## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese maciço, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius. By surface analysis, masa +‎ -izo.

#### Alternative forms

* mocizo
* mociço (Middle Galician, reintegrationist)
* maciço (reintegrationist)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈθiθo/ [maˈθi.θʊ]
* IPA: (standard) /maˈθiθo/ [maˈθi.θʊ]
* IPA: (seseo) /maˈsiso/ [maˈsi.sʊ]
* Rhymes: -iθo
* Rhymes: -iθo
* Rhymes: -iso
* Hyphenation: ma‧ci‧zo

#### Adjective

macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)
* solid
    Synonym: sólido
** 1753, Diego Cernadas, Adán non pudo pecar:consintíu nesso, ê, como hè gallego Maziso, vendo, què â redondilla, aunque era Castillana, tiña ô mismo orden, sintido, ê consonancia, nà sua lengua, trasladaria nela, por què topoù assi mais churumehe consented, and since he is a sound Galician, seeing how the redondilla, even being Castilian, has the same order, sense and consonance in his language, he translated it, because he found in this manner more juice
* (of milk) whole
    Synonym: enteiro
** 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o provebios en Romance:No ay tal viço, como pam de trigo, e leyte mociçoThere is no such a vice like wheat bread and whole milk

#### Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)
* bait
    Synonyms: engado, isca, gueldo, raba
* (architecture) foundation
    Synonyms: fundamento, cimento

##### Derived terms

* macizar

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

macizo
* first-person singular present indicative of macizar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /maˈθiθo/ [maˈθi.θo]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈsiso/ [maˈsi.so]
* Rhymes: -iθo
* Rhymes: -iso
* Syllabification: ma‧ci‧zo

### Etymology 1

From a hypothetical earlier *massizo, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius, from Latin massa (“mass”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley cake”); see links for more. The sense “massif” is a semantic loan from French massif, which is cognate.

#### Adjective

macizo (feminine maciza, masculine plural macizos, feminine plural macizas)
* solid
* massive, large
* (colloquial) hunky, dishy
    Es el hombre más macizo que mis ojos han contemplado.He is the hunkiest man that my eyes have contemplated.

#### Noun

macizo m (plural macizos)
* flowerbed
* mass, solid
* massif
* (colloquial) hunk

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

macizo
* first-person singular present indicative of macizar

### Further reading

* “macizo”, 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