chumaço

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

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

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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 deixara no pente azul.
    After getting ready, he/she noticed the wad of hair that he/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
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chumaço

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chumaçar

References

  1. ^ “chumaço”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
  2. ^ “chumaço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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