cabezudo
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kɑβeˈθuðʊ], (western) [kɑβeˈsuðʊ]
Adjective
cabezudo (feminine cabezuda, masculine plural cabezudos, feminine plural cabezudas)
- big-headed, headstrong
- Synonym: cabezón
- stubborn
- having a head
- 1884, O tío Marcos da Portela, volume 2, number 45, page 1:
- na compaña dos meus bos amigos Benito das Vacalouras e Martiño de Zamora, metínme nun deses wagós do camiño de ferro d'Ourense a Vigo, i anque fumos nel como sardiñas en banasta, non tivemos queixa, porque neso da comparanza das sardiñas, nosoutros éramos das cabezudas, i as que levábamos á beira eran das escochadas, frescas e pequerrechiñas e cun sal
- in the company of my good friends Benito das Vacalouras and Martiño from Zamora, I entered one of those wagons of the railroad from Ourense to Vigo and, even if we travelled packed as sardines, we had no complaint, because on that comparison we were as sardines with head, but those next to us were as headless sardines, fresh and small and salted
Noun
cabezudo m (plural cabezudos)
References
- “cabezudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cabezudo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cabezudo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kabeˈθudo/ [ka.β̞eˈθu.ð̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kabeˈsudo/ [ka.β̞eˈsu.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -udo
- Syllabification: ca‧be‧zu‧do
Further reading
- “cabezudo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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