cuidado
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cuidado, coidado, from Latin cōgitātus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kujˈda.du/ [kuɪ̯ˈda.du]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kujˈda.do/ [kuɪ̯ˈda.do]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kujˈda.du/ [kujˈða.ðu]
- Hyphenation: cui‧da‧do
Adjective
cuidado (feminine cuidada, masculine plural cuidados, feminine plural cuidadas)
- meditated, thought-out
- planned
Quotations
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Interjection
cuidado
- watch out!
- beware!
- be careful!
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuidado.
Noun
cuidado m (plural cuidados)
- care, caution, precaution
- fear
Quotations
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Participle
cuidado (feminine cuidada, masculine plural cuidados, feminine plural cuidadas)
- past participle of cuidar
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuidar.
Spanish
Alternative forms
- cuidao (eye dialect)
Etymology
Past participle of cuidar; corresponds to Latin cōgitātus.
The Philippine sense is a calque of Tagalog bahala, as in the expressions bahala ka, ako bahala, ikaw bahala, etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwiˈdado/ [kwiˈð̞a.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: cui‧da‧do
Interjection
cuidado
- watch out!
- beware!
- be careful!
Noun
cuidado m (plural cuidados)
- care (close attention; concern)
- care (maintenance, upkeep)
- care (the treatment of those in need)
Derived terms
- bien cuidado
- cuidadoso
- cuidados paliativos
- de cuidado
- tener cuidado
- tener sin cuidado
- traer sin cuidado
- unidad de cuidados intensivos
Related terms
- descuido
Adjective
cuidado (feminine cuidada, masculine plural cuidados, feminine plural cuidadas)
- (Philippines) answerable; accountable; responsible[1][2]
- yo cuidado
- I'll take care of it. / I am accountable.
- tú cuidado
- It's up to you. / You are responsible.
Derived terms
- él cuidado
- nosotros cuidado
- tú cuidado
- tu cuidao
- usted cuidao
- ustedes cuidao
- yo cuidado
- yo cuidao
Participle
cuidado (feminine cuidada, masculine plural cuidados, feminine plural cuidadas)
- past participle of cuidar
References
- Lipski, John M. (June 1987), “Contemporary Philippine Spanish: Comments on Vestigial Usage”, in Philippine Journal of Linguistics, volume 18, issue 1, page 45
- de los Reyes, Manuel (1937) Prontuario de Palabras Y Frases Mal Empleadas en Filipinas
Further reading
- “cuidado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014