cágado
See also: cagado
Galician
![](Images/wiktionary/Tadpoles_10_days.jpg.webp)
Cágados ("tadpoles")
Alternative forms
- cádigo, cágaro
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaza. Cognate with Portuguese cágado (“turtle”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkaɣɐðʊ]
Noun
cágado m (plural cágados)
- tadpole
- Synonyms: cabezolo, culler
References
- “cágado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cágado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cágado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “galápago”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
![](Images/wiktionary/Common_snakeneck_turtle_(Chelodina_longicollis)_2.jpg.webp)
cágado
Etymology
From Old Portuguese, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaça. Cognate with Galician cágado (“tadpole”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.ɡa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.ɡa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.ɡɐ.du/ [ˈka.ɣɐ.ðu]
- Hyphenation: cá‧ga‧do
Noun
cágado m (plural cágados)
- a freshwater turtle
- (specifically) a chelid (member of the Chelidae family of turtles)
- (by extension, derogatory) a slow or lazy person
- Synonyms: lorpa, mandrião
Adjective
cágado (feminine cágada, masculine plural cágados, feminine plural cágadas, comparable)
- slow; lazy
Derived terms
- cágado-de-pescoço-comprido
- cágado-de-pescoço-de-cobra
Further reading
cágado on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt