barricado

English

Etymology

The noun is from French barricade, from barrique (“cask”) + -ade (“group”); or Spanish barricada, from barrica (“cask”) + -ada (“group”). So named after the first street barricades in Paris, which were composed of casks filled with earth, paving stones, etc.[1] The verb is from the noun.[2]

Noun

barricado (plural barricados or barricadoes)

  1. (archaic) A barricade.
    • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 131:
      He raised his right foot, and, with a furious exertion, split in shivers the half-decayed barricado which impeded his progress in effecting his purpose.

Verb

barricado (third-person singular simple present barricadoes, present participle barricadoing, simple past and past participle barricadoed)

  1. (archaic) To barricade.

References

  1. ^ “barricado, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “barricado, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Portuguese

Participle

barricado (feminine barricada, masculine plural barricados, feminine plural barricadas)

  1. past participle of barricar
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