salgado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese salgado, from Vulgar Latin *salicare (“to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Adjective

salgado m (feminine singular salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. salty
2. salted

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese salgado, from Vulgar Latin *salicāre (“to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈɡa.du/ [saʊ̯ˈɡa.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈɡa.du/ [saʊ̯ˈɡa.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈɡa.do/ [saʊ̯ˈɡa.do]

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

• Rhymes: -adu
• Homophone: Salgado
• Hyphenation: sal‧ga‧do

Adjective

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. salty
   1. tasting of salt
   2. salted (containing salt)
   3. preserved or treated with salt

      Synonym: ensalmourado

   4. (figurative, of language) coarse, provocative, earthy

      Synonym: malicioso

2. (colloquial) very expensive

   Synonym: caríssimo

   Antonym: barato

   preço salgado

   high price

Noun

salgado m (plural salgados)

1. any snack, usually fried, that takes salt

   Synonym: salgadinho

   Antonym: doce

Related terms

• sal
• salada
• salário
• salga
• salgadinho
• salgadio
• salgador
• salgadura
• salgalhada
• salgamento
• salgante
• salgar

 

Participle

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. past participle of salgar