cardeal

From Old Galician-Portuguese cardeal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cardinālis (“cardinal”), from cardō (“door hinge”).

• IPA^(key): [kɑɾðeˈal]

cardeal m (plural cardeais)

1. (Catholicism) cardinal
2. (Catholicism, historical) each one of the seven canons of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cardẽal, from Latin cardinālis (“cardinal”), from cardō (“door hinge”). Doublet of cardinal, a learned borrowing.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: car‧de‧al

cardeal m or f (plural cardeais)

1. cardinal (of fundamental importance)

   Synonyms: fundamental, essencial

cardeal m (plural cardeais)

1. (Catholicism) cardinal
2. cardinal (bird)