cruzado

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese cruzado. Doublet of cruciate.

Noun

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cruzado (plural cruzados or cruzadoes)

  1. The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
  2. An old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  3. An old monetary unit of Castile in the 14th century.

Translations

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cruzado, from cruz (cross) +‎ -ado. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish cruzado.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /kɾuˈθado/
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /kɾuˈsado/

  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: cru‧za‧do

Adjective

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

  1. crossed
  2. crossbred

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

  1. crusader
  2. cruzado (old monetary unit of Castile, Portugal, Brazil)
    • 1371, A. López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 381:
      ouvo en estas viñas triinta e seys çestos de huvas e de conposta. Et que custara o carreto tres barbudas cada çesto, que montaron çento e oyto barbudas, que montaron en crusados mill e seysçentos e viinte crusados.
      there were in this vineyard thirty-six baskets of grapes and compote. And that the carriage costed three barbudas each basket, amounting to a hundred and eight barbudas, which amounted in cruzados to one thousand and six hundred and twenty cruzados.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cruzado m (definite singular cruzadoen, indefinite plural cruzado or cruzados, definite plural cruzadoene)

  1. (historical, numismatics) cruzado

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzadoen)

  1. (historical, numismatics) cruzado

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cru‧za‧do

Etymology 1

From cruz (cross) +‎ -ado.

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

  1. cruzado (old monetary unit of Brazil)
  2. cruzado (old monetary unit of Portugal)
  3. crusader

Etymology 2

Past participle of cruzar.

Adjective

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

  1. crossed

Participle

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

  1. past participle of cruzar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /kɾuˈθado/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kɾuˈsado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: cru‧za‧do

Adjective

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

  1. crossed

Derived terms

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

  1. crusader

Participle

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

  1. past participle of cruzar

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