corrido
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
corrido (plural corridos)
- (music) A Mexican or Mexican-American ballad or folk song.
- Hyponym: narcocorrido
- 2015, John Holmes McDowell, ¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 2:
- The Mexican corrido remains essentially true to these Iberian roots in regard to its poetic form and its handling of narrative subjects. It is probable that the term corrido is a shortening of the term romance corrido, meaning a through-sung ballad, as attested in Spanish usage during the sixteenth century (Simmons 1963).
Further reading edit
Galician edit
Participle edit
corrido (feminine corrida, masculine plural corridos, feminine plural corridas)
- past participle of correr
Portuguese edit
Participle edit
corrido (feminine corrida, masculine plural corridos, feminine plural corridas)
- past participle of correr
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
corrido (feminine corrida, masculine plural corridos, feminine plural corridas)
- world-wise, well-travelled
- in a row
- decent, good, generous
- un kilo corrido de manzanas ― a generous kilo of apples
- late
- hasta muy corrido la noche ― far into the night
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
corrido m (plural corridos)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Tagalog: korido
Participle edit
corrido (feminine corrida, masculine plural corridos, feminine plural corridas)
- past participle of correr
Further reading edit
- “corrido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014