cadillo

Galician

Unclear. Attested since the 15th century; perhaps from Latin *catenicullum, diminutive of catēna (“chain”).^[1]

cadillo m (plural cadillos)

thread used to tie the umbilical cord
(in the plural, weaving) group of twelve or twenty-four threads that are warped
(archaic) skein
- 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:
  Iten, preçaron duas toallas e hua azarella e hua sauaa e dous cadillos e hun saquo e hua manta vella e hua azarella em oytenta maravedis
  Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two skeins and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis
umbilical cord

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cadillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cadil”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cadillo”, 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), “cadillo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cadillo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. cadilleira.

Inherited from Latin catellus.

IPA^(key): /kaˈdiʝo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /kaˈdiʎo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /kaˈdiʃo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /kaˈdiʒo/ [kaˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

cadillo m (plural cadillos)