cárdeno
Spanish
alcachofa
cardo
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin cardineus, from Latin carduus (“artichoke, thistle”), after the colour of its flowers.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaɾdeno/ [ˈkaɾ.ð̞e.no]
- Rhymes: -aɾdeno
- Syllabification: cár‧de‧no
Adjective
cárdeno (feminine cárdena, masculine plural cárdenos, feminine plural cárdenas)
- purplish, purply, violet, livid, lurid
- (bullfighting) grayish (of a bull), having small, dense black and white spots that appear gray or leaden
- opalescent (water)
Further reading
- “cárdeno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014