cardume

From Old Galician-Portuguese *cardume (not attested before 16th century), from carda (“card for textiles”) +‎ -ume, a collective suffix.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈdume/ [kɑɾˈð̞u.mɪ]
• Rhymes: -ume
• Hyphenation: car‧du‧me

cardume m (plural cardumes)

1. school (a group of fish)

   Synonyms: banco, manda

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cardume”, 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), “cardume”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cardume”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Carda +‎ -ume.

cardume m (plural cardumes)

1. school (a group of fish)

• Galician: cardume
• Portuguese: cardume
• → Spanish: cardumen

From Old Galician-Portuguese cardume.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -umɨ, (most of Brazil) -ũmi, (Southern Brazil) -ume
• Hyphenation: car‧du‧me

cardume m (plural cardumes)

1. (collective) school (a group of fish)

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈdume/ [kaɾˈð̞u.me]
• Rhymes: -ume
• Syllabification: car‧du‧me

cardume m (plural cardumes)

1. school, shoal (group of fish)

   Synonym: bandada

• “cardume”, 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