cadillo

Galician

Etymology

Unclear. Attested since the 15th century; perhaps from Latin *catenicullum, diminutive of catēna (“chain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈðiʎo̝/

Noun

cadillo m (plural cadillos)

1. thread used to tie the umbilical cord
2. (in the plural, weaving) group of twelve or twenty-four threads that are warped
3. (archaic) skein
   • 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:

     Iten, preçaron duas toallas e hua azarella e hua sauaa e dous cadillos e hun saquo e hua manta vella e hua azarella em oytenta maravedis

     Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two skeins and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis

4. umbilical cord

Derived terms

• cadilleira
• encadillar

References

• “cadillo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cadil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cadillo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cadillo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cadillo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin catellus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈdiʝo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˈdiʝo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaˈdiʎo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈdiʃo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈdiʒo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: ca‧di‧llo

Noun

cadillo m (plural cadillos)

1. any of certain species of plants
   1. greater burdock (Arctium lappa)
   2. beggarticks (Bidens pilosa)
   3. carrot bur parsley (Caucalis platycarpos)
   4. wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
   5. catchweed (Galium aparine)
   6. corn buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis)
   7. southern sandbur (Cenchrus echinatus)
   8. puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris)
   9. broadleaf false carrot (Turgenia latifolia)
2. wart

Further reading

• “cadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014