cerrado
English edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese cerrado, from cerrar (“to shut”).
Noun edit
cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)
- (biogeography, uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
- (biogeography, countable) A region with this biome.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Participle edit
cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)
- past participle of cerrar
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)
Noun edit
cerrado m (plural cerrados)
Participle edit
cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)
- past participle of cerrar
Further reading edit
- “cerrado” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “cerrado” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “cerrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “cerrado” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “cerrado” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “cerrado” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Past participle of cerrar.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeˈrado/ [θeˈra.ð̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /seˈrado/ [seˈra.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: ce‧rra‧do
- Homophone: (Latin America) serrado
Adjective edit
cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)
- shut, closed
- El baúl está cerrado.
- The trunk is shut.
- Gracias por mantener la boca cerrada.
- Thanks for keeping your mouth shut.
- closed off (personality trait)
Derived terms edit
- a puerta cerrada
- a puertas cerradas
- circuito cerrado
- en boca cerrada no entran moscas
- libro cerrado (“closed book”) (idiomatic)
- noche cerrada
Noun edit
cerrado m (plural cerrados)
- Synonym of cercado
Participle edit
cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)
- past participle of cerrar
Further reading edit
- “cerrado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014