Masculine

painço

  1. (masculine) millet, any grass in the genus Panicum
  2. (masculine, specifically) millet, any grass in the genus Panicum
  3. (colloquial, masculine) money

Pronounced as (IPA)
/paˈĩ.su/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese painço, peinço (earlier *pãiço), from Late Latin pānīcium, from Latin pānīcum, from pānus (“ear of millet”). Doublet of panico. Cognate with Galician paínzo and Spanish panizo.

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