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macizo

/maˈθiθo/

adjective/maˈθiθo/

solid; massive, large; hunky, dishy

Es el hombre más macizo que mis ojos han contemplado.He is the hunkiest man that my eyes have contemplated.

Inherited from Old Spanish maçiço (mid-14th c.), from a hypothetical earlier *massizo, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius, from Latin massa (“mass”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley cake”); see links for more. The sense “massif” is a semantic loan from French massif, which is cognate.

noun, masculine/maˈθiθo/plural: macizos

flowerbed; mass, solid; massif; hunk

Inherited from Old Spanish maçiço (mid-14th c.), from a hypothetical earlier *massizo, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius, from Latin massa (“mass”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley cake”); see links for more. The sense “massif” is a semantic loan from French massif, which is cognate.