chumaço

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -asu Hyphenation: chu‧ma‧ço === Etymology 1 === From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin plūmācium (“feather pillow”), 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) (rare or Timorese) cushion Synonyms: almofada, travesseiro wad (a lump or bundle of a soft material) um chumaço de algodão ― a wad of cotton shoulder pad swelling, tumor, mass Synonym: inchaço compress; cloth used to apply pressure to wounds Synonym: compressa (Minho) pine needles Synonym: caruma ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== chumaço first-person singular present indicative of chumaçar === References === === Further reading === “chumaço”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026