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Galician
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *coleūtus, derived from Latin cōleus (“testicle”). Compare Portuguese colhudo, Spanish cojudo. First attested in the 15th c.
Pronunciation
Adjective
colludo (feminine colluda, masculine plural colludos, feminine plural colludas)
- not castrated
- 1451, Ferro Couselo, X. (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 144:
o carneiro capado a nobe diñeiros e o colludo a VIII diñeiros- the castrated ram at nine diñeiros, the not castrated one at eight diñeiros
Noun
colludo m (plural colludos)
- any male animal that has not been castrated
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colludo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “colludo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “colludo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kolˈlu.do/
- Rhymes: -udo
- Hyphenation: col‧lù‧do
Verb
colludo
- first-person singular present indicative of colludere
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with, together”) + lūdō (“play”).
Pronunciation
Verb
collūdō (present infinitive collūdere, perfect active collūsī, supine collūsum); third conjugation, no passive
- to play or sport together; play with
- (law) to keep up false appearances with one to the injury of a third person, have a secret understanding with one, act in collusion with
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References
- “colludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- colludo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.