colmazo

Attested in 14th-century documents as colmaça (feminine); from colmo (“thatch”) + -azo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolmaθo̝/

colmazo m (plural colmazos)

1. thatched roof

   Synonym: colmado

colmazo (feminine colmaza, masculine plural colmazos, feminine plural colmazas)

1. having a thatched roof
   • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernandez (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 38:

     Jtem hũa cassa en Padrõ, meadade tellada et meadade colmaça

     Item, a house in Padrón, half of it is tilled, the other half thatched

   Synonyms: pallaza, palloza

• colmaceiro

• colmo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colmaç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “colmazo”, 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), “colmazo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega