cágado

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Galician

Cágados ("tadpoles")

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaza. Cognate with Portuguese cágado (“turtle”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cágado m (plural cágados)

  1. tadpole
    Synonyms: cabezolo, culler

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “galápago”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

cágado

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaça. Cognate with Galician cágado (“tadpole”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cá‧ga‧do

Noun

cágado m (plural cágados)

  1. a freshwater turtle
  2. (specifically) a chelid (member of the Chelidae family of turtles)
  3. (by extension, derogatory) a slow or lazy person
    Synonyms: lorpa, mandrião

Adjective

cágado (feminine cágada, masculine plural cágados, feminine plural cágadas, comparable)

  1. slow; lazy

Derived terms

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