cágado
See also: cagado
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaza. Cognate with Portuguese cágado (“turtle”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cágado m (plural cágados)
References edit
- “cágado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cágado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cágado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “galápago”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaça. Cognate with Galician cágado (“tadpole”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cá‧ga‧do
Noun edit
cágado m (plural cágados)
- a freshwater turtle
- (specifically) a chelid (member of the Chelidae family of turtles)
- (by extension, derogatory) a slow or lazy person
Adjective edit
cágado (feminine cágada, masculine plural cágados, feminine plural cágadas, comparable)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- cágado on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt