fardo

Galician

Alternative forms

• farda

Etymology

Perhaps a back-formation from fardel, which is attested in Galician since the 13th century, from Old French fardel (Modern French fardeaux).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fardo m (plural fardos)

1. bale, truss, bundle
2. (by extension) burden
   • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

     E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.

     And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son

Related terms

• fardar
• fardelo

References

• “fardel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fardel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fardo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

Probably from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “one of a pair”), as applied to saddlebags. Alternative theories include Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “crease”) and Latin fartus (“filled”). See Spanish fardo for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfar.do/
• Rhymes: -ardo
• Hyphenation: fàr‧do

Noun

fardo m (plural fardi)

1. a kind of sack used to transport coffee

Derived terms

• fardello

Anagrams

• froda

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Probably from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “one of a pair”), as applied to saddlebags. Alternative theories include Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “crease”) and Latin fartus (“filled”). See Spanish fardo for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

fardo m (plural fardos)

1. bale, truss, bundle

   um fardo de palha ― a bale of straw

2. package, parcel

   Synonyms: pacote, embrulho

3. (by extension) burden

   Synonyms: carga, peso

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fardo.

Derived terms

• enfardar
• farda

Etymology 2

Verb

fardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fardar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾdo/
• Rhymes: -aɾdo
• Syllabification: far‧do

Etymology 1

Three etymologies have been proposed.

• The most likely view is that it derives from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “unit, one of a pair”), as applied to a pair of saddlebags. From this, fardel was derived to denote the pair.

• Another view purports that it comes from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “crease, parting; contribution”), verbal noun of فَرَضَ (faraḍa, “to crease, to notch; to make obligatory”). However, Spanish alfarda (“tax for having creased the ground to make a water canal”) and farda (“tribute, corvée; mortise, notch”) belong to this, and the sense of “load, baggage” (ca. 1150) is attested earlier than the sense of “crease, notch” (ca. 1400).

• The third proposes a derivation from Latin fartus (“stuffed, filled”), from farciō (“to fill”), via Vulgar Latin first and then French (see French fardeau and French farce for more), having thence extended to Catalan farcell, fardell, Italian fardello, Spanish fardel, Asturian fardel and Portuguese fardel.

Noun

fardo m (plural fardos)

1. bundle
2. stack
3. burden
4. bale

Etymology 2

Verb

fardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fardar

References

Further reading

• “fardo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Etymology and history of “fardeau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 858