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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese dourado, from dourar, or directly from Latin deauratus. Cognate with Portuguese dourado and Spanish dorado.
Pronunciation
Participle
dourado (feminine dourada, masculine plural dourados, feminine plural douradas)
- past participle of dourar
Adjective
dourado (feminine dourada, masculine plural dourados, feminine plural douradas)
- golden (color)
- gilded
1307, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 440:hun calez de prata d'un marco et meo, que seia laurado et dourado arredor nas orelas- a silver chalize of a mark and a half, sculpted and gilded around in the rim
- 1398, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 502:
- Iten huun puñal dourado que ten duas onças de prata et huuns canivetes garnidos et huun relicario con sua cadea
- Item, a gilded poniard which have two ounces of silver and some garnished knives and a reliquary with its necklace
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dourado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dourad”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dourado”, 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), “dourado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “dourado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dourado (past participle of dourar), or from Latin dēaurātus, or from dē- + aurātus (“golden”), from aurum (“gold”). Compare Galician dourado, Spanish dorado, French doré.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -adu
- Hyphenation: dou‧ra‧do
Noun
dourado m (plural dourados)
- (uncountable) gold (colour)
- Synonym: ouro
- dorado
- Synonym: pirajuba
Participle
dourado (feminine dourada, masculine plural dourados, feminine plural douradas)
- past participle of dourar
Adjective
dourado (feminine dourada, masculine plural dourados, feminine plural douradas)
- golden
- Synonym: áureo
Further reading
- “dourado”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “dourado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “dourado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “dourado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “dourado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “dourado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024