cachaza - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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cachaza (uncountable)
- A by-product of pressing sugar cane, traditionally mixed with other materials and used in construction.
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cachaça, from cacha (“head”) + -aza. Compare Portuguese cachaço.
cachaza f (plural cachazas)
- (cooking) salted and cured pork head
- superlative calmness or slowness; phlegm
- Synonyms: calma, flegma, pachorra, parsimonia, prosma
- → Spanish: cachaza
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cachaça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cachaç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cachaza”, 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), “cachaza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cachaza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- “cachaza”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kaˈt͡ʃaθa/ [kaˈt͡ʃa.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaˈt͡ʃasa/ [kaˈt͡ʃa.sa]
- Rhymes: -aθa
- Rhymes: -asa
- Syllabification: ca‧cha‧za
cachaza f (plural cachazas)
- “cachaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10