caxato
Galician
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAttested since 1390 (cajado). From Latin caia. Compare Portuguese cajado and Spanish cayado.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcaxato m (plural caxatos)
- staff, shepherd's crook, cudgel
- Synonym: cachaba
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:
- Rrulan leuaua na mão un moy boo paao rretorto com̃o cajado cõ que dou a el todo o dia moy grãdes feridas
- Roland carried in his hand an excellent staff twisted as a crook with which he delivered very large wounds all day long
- 1697, Juan Correa Mendoza, Romanze Gallego:
- Este vos digo eu que foi / Pastor ben feyto, è dereyto, / Que traìa seu cajado,
- This I tell you was a well formed shepherd, and a straight one, who brought his crook
- cane, walking stick
- Synonym: bastón
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cajado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cajado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caxato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caxato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caxato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN