mazarelo

== Galician == === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *mattearellum, from Vulgar Latin *ma(t)tea, from Latin mateola, from a Proto-Indo-European root describing similar tools: Old High German medela (“plow”), Old Church Slavonic мотыка (motyka, “mattock”), मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”). Cognate with Portuguese maça, Spanish maza, Catalan maça, French masse, Italian mazza. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /maθaˈɾɛlo̝/, (western) /masaˈɾɛlo̝/ === Noun === mazarelo m (plural mazarelos) pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things) === References === Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mazarelo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega