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Galician
Etymology
From picar.
Pronunciation
Participle
picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)
- past participle of picar
Adjective
picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)
- chopped, minced, ground
- having bites
- (of wine) spoiled
- (of a tooth) decayed
- (of people) piqued
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
- (of the sea) choppy (having many small, rough waves)
- (music) staccato (with each note played for a very short duration)
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “picad”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “picado”, 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), “picado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “picado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)
- having insect bites
- hash (chopped into small pieces)
- (of the sea) choppy (having many small, rough waves)
- (music) staccato (with each note played for a very short duration)
- Synonym: staccato
Noun
picado m (plural picados)
- finely chopped food
- Synonym: picadinho
- (music) staccato (articulation in with each note played for a very short duration)
- Synonym: staccato
Participle
picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)
- past participle of picar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piˈkado/
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: pi‧ca‧do
Adjective
picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)
- rotten, spoiled
- Synonym: estropeado
- piqued
- (of a tooth) decayed
- (of the sea) choppy
- (of food, especially meat) minced, ground
- (colloquial) bitter, pissed
Derived terms
Noun
picado m (plural picados)
- (film) overhead shot
- (music) staccato note
- (Argentina) kick around (informal football game)
Participle
picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)
- past participle of picar
Further reading