calafate

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English

Etymology

From Spanish calafate (“barberry”).

Noun

calafate (plural calafates)

  1. The barberry, shrubs belonging to the genus Berberis.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -atʃi, -ati
  • Hyphenation: ca‧la‧fa‧te

Noun

calafate m (plural calafates)

  2. (nautical) caulker
    • 1880, Cesário Verde, O Sentimento dum Ocidental, Ave Marias (section 1); republished as Silva Pinto, editor, O Livro de Cesario Verde, Lisbon: Typographia Elzeveriana, 1887, lines 19–20:
      Voltam os calafates, aos magotes, / De jaquetão ao ombro, enfarruscados, secos[.]
      The caulkers return in heaps. / With their jackets on their shoulders, blackened, dry

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

calafate m or f by sense (plural calafates)

  2. caulker
    Synonyms: calafateador, calafateadora
  4. (Chile, Argentina) barberry
    Synonym: michay

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