mollado

mollado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mollado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Past participle of mollar, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin mollīre. Compare Portuguese molhado, Spanish mojado, Catalan mullat, Occitan molhat.

Adjective

mollado m (feminine singular mollada, masculine plural mollados, feminine plural molladas)

1. covered with or impregnated with liquid; wet
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 519:

     Tanto que fuy manãa, fezo o sol muy claro et muy bõo, et despois cõmeçou d'escureçer et de chouer et uentar muyto, et todos andauã mollados et anoiados

     As soon as it dawned it was sunny and clear, but then it darkened and it rained and the wind blew strongly, and everyone was wet and annoyed

   Synonyms: empapado, enchoupado

   Antonyms: enxoito, seco

Verb

mollado m (feminine singular mollada, masculine plural mollados, feminine plural molladas)

1. masculine singular past participle of mollar

References

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