cágado

• cádigo, cágaro

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Paleo-Hispanic *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

• 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).

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Paleo-Hispanic *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 terrapin, or any other freshwater turtle
2. (Brazil) side-necked turtle (member of the Pleurodira suborder 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