delgado
Asturian edit
Adjective edit
delgado
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese delgado, from Latin dēlicātus. Compare Portuguese delgado.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ado
- Hyphenation: del‧ga‧do
Adjective edit
delgado (feminine delgada, masculine plural delgados, feminine plural delgadas)
- thin
- 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
- viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata
- twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings
- slender, slim
- c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 123:
- Et guareçeu daquela gordura et tornou a seer delgado como outro ome que delgado [fos]se.
- And he healed of said obesity and came back to be slim as another man who is slim
- (dated) fine, delicate
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References edit
- “delgado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “delgado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “delgado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “delgado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “delgado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin dēlicātus.
Adjective edit
delgado m (plural delgados, feminine delgada, feminine plural delgadas)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese delgado, from Latin dēlicātus. Doublet of delicado, a borrowing. Compare Galician delgado.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
delgado (feminine delgada, masculine plural delgados, feminine plural delgadas, comparable, comparative mais delgado, superlative o mais delgado or delgadíssimo, diminutive delgadinho)
- thin (having little thickness)
- slender; slim (having little body fat or flesh)
- (of a tube) having a small diameter
- (of clouds, fog, mist, etc) sparse (not dense)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin dēlicātus and doublet of delicado. Compare also English delicate.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
delgado (feminine delgada, masculine plural delgados, feminine plural delgadas, superlative delgadísimo)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “delgado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014