carozo

• caroço (Reintegrationist)

Probably from Vulgar Latin *carudium, from Ancient Greek καρύδιον (karúdion), from κάρυον (káruon, “nut”); alternatively, from a substrate language: compare carolo and carocha.^[1] Cognate with Portuguese caroço.

• Hyphenation: ca‧ro‧zo

carozo m (plural carozos)

1. inedible or hard inner nucleus of a fruit, such as an apple or a pear
2. corncob

• a fume de carozo / a lume de carozo
• Caroceiros
• Carozo

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾoθo/ [kaˈɾo.θo] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾoso/ [kaˈɾo.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oθo (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -oso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ca‧ro‧zo

carozo m (plural carozos)

1. corncob
2. stone; kernel (of fruit)

• “carozo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025