espigado
Galician
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.piˈɡa.du/, /es.piˈɡa.du/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.piˈɡa.du/, /eʃ.piˈɡa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.piˈɡa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.piˈɡa.du/ [(i)ʃ.piˈɣa.ðu]
- Hyphenation: es‧pi‧ga‧do
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /espiˈɡado/ [es.piˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: es‧pi‧ga‧do
Adjective
espigado (feminine espigada, masculine plural espigados, feminine plural espigadas)
- willowy
- lanky, lofty
- un espigado paisano ― a lanky fellow
- 1900, Pastor Servando Obligado, Tradiciones argentinas - Primera serie, Rozas cautivo: 5:
- Espigado, enjuto, puro nervios y puro corazón, era don Lázaro Gómez un pundonoroso Oficial,
- Lofty, wiry, nervous as a cat and pure-hearted, Lázaro Gómez was an honourable official
Participle
espigado (feminine espigada, masculine plural espigados, feminine plural espigadas)
- past participle of espigar
Further reading
- “espigado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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