delicado
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin delicātus.
Adjective edit
delicado (feminine delicada, masculine plural delicados, feminine plural delicadas)
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Further reading edit
- “delicado” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin dēlicātus (“charming; delicate”). Compare the inherited doublet delgado.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: de‧li‧ca‧do
Adjective edit
delicado (feminine delicada, masculine plural delicados, feminine plural delicadas, comparable, comparative mais delicado, superlative o mais delicado or delicadíssimo, diminutive delicadinho)
- delicate (easily damaged)
- Synonym: frágil
- delicate (characterized by a fine structure or thin lines)
- refined (showing or having good feelings)
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Further reading edit
- “delicado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin delicātus. Doublet of delgado.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
delicado (feminine delicada, masculine plural delicados, feminine plural delicadas)
- delicate
- fragile
- dainty, fine, refined
- fussy
- subtle (flavor, color)
- (Argentina, derogatory) effeminate, gay
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “delicado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014