chumaço

• Rhymes: -asu
• Hyphenation: chu‧ma‧ço

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium (“feather pillow”),^[1][2] from plūma. Doublet of plumaço, which was borrowed from the same source.

Cognate to Galician chumaço, chomaço, and Old Spanish llumazo.

chumaço m (plural chumaços)

1. (rare or Timorese) cushion

   Synonyms: almofada, travesseiro

2. wad (a lump or bundle of a soft material)

   um chumaço de algodão ― a wad of cotton

   Depois de se arrumar, percebeu o chumaço de cabelo que havia deixado no pente azul.

   After getting ready, she noticed the wad of hair she had left on the blue comb.

3. shoulder pad
4. swelling, tumor, mass

   Synonym: inchaço

5. compress; cloth used to apply pressure to wounds

   Synonym: compressa

6. (Minho) pine needles

   Synonym: caruma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chumaço

1. first-person singular present indicative of chumaçar