mallo

mallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mallar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʎo̝/

From Latin malleus (“mallet”).

mallo m (plural mallos)

1. large mallet; sledgehammer
   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 139:

     em casa de Tare estaua aymage de Ulcano, feyta amaneyra de ferreyro, et hũ grande mallo ẽnas [maaos]

     in Tare's house there was an image of Vulcan, made in the manner of a blacksmith, holding a large hammer in his hands

• mallar
• mallega
• malleira

a reenactment

From malle (“flail”), from Latin manualis (“manual”), influenced by Latin malleus (“hammer”). Cognate with Portuguese mangual. Alternative forms include manlle, manle, mal.

mallo m (plural mallos)

1. flail
2. handle of the flail

   Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca

mallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mallar

• “mallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mallo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mallo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal.lo/
• Rhymes: -allo
• Hyphenation: màl‧lo

mallo m (plural malli)

1. cupule
2. (botany) husk, hull, shell

• molla

From Ancient Greek μαλλός (mallós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.loː/, [ˈmälːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.lo/, [ˈmälːo]

mallō m (genitive mallōnis); third declension

1. The stem of onions
2. (pathology) A kind of tumor on the knees of animals

Third-declension noun.

• “mallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mallo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Syllabification: ma‧llo

Borrowed from Portuguese malho, from Latin malleus. Replaced Old Spanish majo, inherited from the same source.

mallo m (plural mallos)

1. mallet
2. a kind of game

mallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mallar

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “majar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 776

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