cágado

See also: cagado

Galician

Cágados ("tadpoles")

Alternative forms

• cádigo, cágaro

Etymology

From Old Galician-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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɣɐðʊ]

Noun

cágado m (plural cágados)

1. tadpole

   Synonyms: cabezolo, culler

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cágado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cágado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cágado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “cágado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “cágado” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

cágado

Etymology

From Old Galician-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/

• (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)

1. a freshwater turtle
2. (specifically) a chelid (member of the Chelidae family of turtles)
3. (by extension, derogatory) a slow or lazy person

   Synonyms: lorpa, mandrião

Adjective

cágado (feminine cágada, masculine plural cágados, feminine plural cágadas, comparable)

1. slow; lazy

Derived terms

• cágado-de-pescoço-comprido
• cágado-de-pescoço-de-cobra

Further reading

• cágado on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt