moucho

• IPA^(key): [ˈmou̯xo]

moucho f

1. vocative singular of moucha

• noucho

Debated (the Galician diphthong is not compatible with the etymons proposed for the other Romance cognates). Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese moucho (first attested in 1421); probably from an adjective meaning "blunted". Compare Portuguese mocho and Spanish mochuelo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmowt͡ʃo/ [ˈmow.t͡ʃʊ]
• Rhymes: -owtʃo

moucho m (plural mouchos)

1. little owl (Athene noctua)

   Synonym: paxaro da morte

   • 1421, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 623:

     et outra leira jaz tras las casas da Quintãã, como vay topar aas pedras dos mouchos

     another field is behind the houses of Quintá, as it reaches the little owl stones

2. stool

   Synonyms: banqueta, tallo

moucho (feminine moucha, masculine plural mouchos, feminine plural mouchas)

1. crestless, blunted, polled

   Synonym: mouco

2. (figurative) sad; melancholic

   Synonym: triste

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “moucho”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “moucho”, 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), “moucho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moucho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN