badalo

badalo

See also: badało

Galician

Alternative forms

• badal

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese badalo (“bell-clapper”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), irregularly from Vulgar Latin *bataclum < *ba(t)tuaculum, from Latin battuō, battuere (“I beat, I clap”).Cognate with Portuguese badalo, Spanish badajo, Catalan batall, French batail, Italian batacchio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈða.lo̝/

Noun

badalo m (plural badalos)

1. clapper (of a bell)

Derived terms

• badalada
• badalar

References

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈda.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈda.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈda.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈda.lu/ [bɐˈða.lu]

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ba‧da‧lo

Etymology 1

badalo (1)

From Old Portuguese badalo (“bell-clapper”), from Vulgar Latin *batāclum, from contraction of *ba(t)tuāculum, from Latin battuere (“to beat, to clap”).Cognate with Galician badal, Spanish badajo, Catalan batall, French batail, Italian batacchio.

Noun

badalo m (plural badalos)

1. clapper (of a bell)
2. (Portugal, informal, by extension) tongue (human)
3. (slang) penis

Derived terms

• badalar

Verb

badalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of badalar