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cárdeo

See also: cardeo and cardẽo

Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese cardẽo, from Late Latin cardinus (“bluish”), from carduus (“thistle”). Cognate with Portuguese cárdeo and Spanish cárdeno.[1]

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cárdeo (feminine cárdea, masculine plural cárdeos, feminine plural cárdeas)

  1. thistle-coloured; purplish, bluish, violet, livid
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 547:
      Et, quando foy desarmado, sabede que o corpo, que ante auj́a moy brãco, pareçía atã cárdeo et atã negro que esto era hũa grã marauilla, et per moytos lugares lle seýa o sange
      And, when disarmed, you must know that his body, once so white, appearer as livid and as black that it was wondrous, and blood come out it in may places
  2. (of a ground) hardish
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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cárdeno”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cardeo, earlier cardẽo, from Late Latin cardinus, from carduus (“thistle”).

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cárdeo (feminine cárdea, masculine plural cárdeos, feminine plural cárdeas)

  1. thistle-coloured
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