cárdeno

Inherited from Late Latin cardinus, from Latin carduus (“artichoke, thistle”), after the colour of its flowers.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾdeno/ [ˈkaɾ.ð̞e.no]
• Rhymes: -aɾdeno
• Syllabification: cár‧de‧no

cárdeno (feminine cárdena, masculine plural cárdenos, feminine plural cárdenas)

1. purplish, purply, violet, livid, lurid
2. (bullfighting) grayish (of a bull), having small, dense black and white spots that appear gray or leaden
3. opalescent (water)

• “cárdeno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024