pescozo

From Old Galician-Portuguese pescoço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from post- (“after”) +‎ *coccius (“nape”). Cognate with Portuguese pescoço and Spanish pescuezo.

• IPA^(key): /pesˈkoθo̝/, (western) /pesˈkoso̝/

pescozo m (plural pescozos)

1. back of the neck; nape; scruff
   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 582:

     Et o Cçide leuãtouse et tomou o leõ pelo pescoço, bẽ com̃o se fosse hũu alaao manso

     El Cid got up and took the lion by the scruff, as if he was a docile alaunt

2. neck
   • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 4:

     et tragia ẽno pescoço hũa pertega de caruallo entorta

     and he was wearing a twisted twig of oak around his neck

   Synonym: colo

• pescozada

• “pescoço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pescoç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pescozo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pescozo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pescozo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.