paínzo

• painço (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *paĩço (Old Galician-Portuguese painço, peinço), from Late Latin pānīcium, from Latin pānīcum, from pānus (“ear of millet”). Cognate with Portuguese painço and Spanish panizo.

• Hyphenation: pa‧ín‧zo

paínzo m (plural paínzos)

1. millet, foxtail millet; any grass in the genus Panicum

   Synonym: millo miúdo

   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 529:

     Et ualia a liura do trijgo en graao hũu marauedi et medeo, et da ceuada hũu morauedi et oitaua, et do painço hũu morauedi meos quarta

     And a pound of wheat worthed a maravedi and a half, and of barley a maravedi and an octave, and of millet a maravedi minus a quarter

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “paynç”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “painço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “painzo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• “paínzo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “paínzo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025