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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bautizado. By surface analysis, batizar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -adu
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ti‧za‧do

Adjective

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batizado (feminine batizada, masculine plural batizados, feminine plural batizadas)

  1. baptized
  2. (colloquial) adulterated; laced (intentionally tainted with impurities)
    Synonym: adulterado
    • 2022 December 20, “Reconhecendo gasolina adulterada: entenda como evitar [Recognizing adulterated gasoline: know how to avoid it]”, in 99 Blog[1], São Paulo: 99 Tecnologia, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:
      A gasolina adulterada ganhou importantes espaços na mídia em 2000, quando se estimava que cerca de 30% de todo o combustível no país era batizado de alguma forma. / Ou seja: recebia qualquer outro componente diluidor para que a gasolina, agora batizada, pudesse "render" mais.
      Adulterated gasoline gained important spaces in media in 2000, when it was estimated that around 30% of all the country's fuel was laced in some way. That is: it received any other diluent component so the gasoline, now laced, would "profit" more.
  3. (colloquial) spiked (of a beverage; containing alcohol or drugs)
    • 1977, Domingos Pellegrini, Os meninos [The boys], São Paulo: Vertente, page 16:
      Esse peixe se batendo aí na grama, vou comer esse peixe com pão, pensou o menino. O pai beberia cerveja e, ele, água batizada com vinho e açúcar.
      “This fish there floundering on the grass, I'm gonna eat this fish with bread”, thought the boy. The father would drink beer and him, water spiked with wine and sugar.
    • 2018 June 24, Gustavo Garcia, “Polêmica da "água batizada" de Branco no jogo com a Argentina completa 28 anos [Branco's spiked water controversy in match with Argentina turns 28]”, Blog do Gustavo Garcia, in ge[2], Cabo Frio: Globo, archived from the original on 2021-08-05:
      O jogador brasileiro, que era responsável por cobras[sic – meaning cobrar] as faltas da Seleção, teria bebido uma suposta "água batizada", que o teria deixado sonolento ao longo do jogo.
      The Brazilian player, responsible for taking the Seleção's free kicks, had supposedly drank some "spiked water" that made him drowsy during the match.

Noun

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batizado m (plural batizados)

  1. (Christianity) baptism
    Synonym: batismo

Participle

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batizado (feminine batizada, masculine plural batizados, feminine plural batizadas)

  1. past participle of batizar

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