cágado

• cádigo, cágaro

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”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɣɐðʊ]

cágado m (plural cágados)

1. tadpole

   Synonyms: cabezolo, culler

• “cágado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cágado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cágado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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”).

• Hyphenation: cá‧ga‧do

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

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

1. slow; lazy

• cágado on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt