pecado

pecado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pecado (“sin”), from Latin peccātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [peˈkaðʊ]

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. sin
2. swear word

References

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

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin peccātum (“sin; error”), from peccō (“I sin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ˈka.d̪o/

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. (religion) sin
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 3 (facsimile):

     Por ela nos perdõou / deus o pecado Dadam. / da maçãa que goſtou. per / que ſoffreu muit affan.

     By her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.

Descendants

• Galician: pecado
• Portuguese: pecado

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• peccado (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pecado (“sin”), from Latin peccātum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈka.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈka.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈka.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨˈka.du/ [pɨˈka.ðu]

• Hyphenation: pe‧ca‧do

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. sin

Related terms

• pecadilho
• pecadoraço
• pecar

 

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: pecaado

Participle

pecado (feminine pecada, masculine plural pecados, feminine plural pecadas)

1. past participle of pecar

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish pecado, borrowed from Latin peccātum, from peccō (“to sin, offend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈkado/ [peˈka.ð̞o]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pe‧ca‧do

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. sin

Derived terms

• pecadillo
• pecado capital
• pecado mortal
• pecado original
• simpecado

 

Related terms

• pecador
• pecar

 

Participle

pecado (feminine pecada, masculine plural pecados, feminine plural pecadas)

1. past participle of pecar

Further reading

• “pecado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014