pesado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pesado, from pesar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pesˈsaðʊ]

Participle

pesado (feminine pesada, masculine plural pesados, feminine plural pesadas)

1. past participle of pesar

Adjective

pesado (feminine pesada, masculine plural pesados, feminine plural pesadas)

1. heavy
2. intense, deep
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 59:

     Et tu entõ leuãtarte as asi com̃o se leuãtases de sono pesado

     And then you'll awake as if you were awaking from a deep sleep

3. (of earth, soil) having good quality, rich; humid
4. formal, serious
5. boring, repetitive
6. weighted

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of pesar. From Old Galician-Portuguese pesado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈza.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈza.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈza.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨˈza.du/ [pɨˈza.ðu]

• Hyphenation: pe‧sa‧do

Participle

pesado (feminine pesada, masculine plural pesados, feminine plural pesadas)

1. past participle of pesar

Adjective

pesado (feminine pesada, masculine plural pesados, feminine plural pesadas, comparable, comparative mais pesado, superlative o mais pesado or pesadíssimo, diminutive pesadinho, augmentative pesadão)

1. heavy (having great weight)
2. heavy, deep, intense (of great force or intensity)

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pisadu
• Kabuverdianu: pizadu

Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of pesar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈsado/ [peˈsa.ð̞o]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pe‧sa‧do

Adjective

pesado (feminine pesada, masculine plural pesados, feminine plural pesadas)

1. heavy in weight, weighty
2. annoying
3. boring
4. serious

Derived terms

• agua pesada
• artillería pesada
• caer pesado
• industria pesada
• metal pesado
• peso pesado
• rock pesado
• sueño pesado

 

Related terms

• pesadilla
• pesar
• peso

 

Noun

pesado m (plural pesados, feminine pesada, feminine plural pesadas)

1. (informal) pest, annoying person

Participle

pesado (feminine pesada, masculine plural pesados, feminine plural pesadas)

1. past participle of pesar

Further reading

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