cercado

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cercado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [θeɾˈkaðʊ], (western) [θeɾˈkaðʊ]

Noun

cercado m (plural cercados)

  1. palisade, stockade, and its enclosed area
    Synonyms: chousa, zarra

Participle

cercado (feminine cercada, masculine plural cercados, feminine plural cercadas)

  1. past participle of cercar

References

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • çercado

Participle

cercado

  1. past participle of cercar

Descendants

  • Fala: cercau
  • Galician: cercado
  • Portuguese: cercado

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cercado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “cercado”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cercado.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /seʁˈka.du/ [sehˈka.du]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /seɾˈka.du/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /seʁˈka.du/ [seχˈka.du]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /seɻˈka.do/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨɾˈka.du/ [sɨɾˈka.ðu]

  • Rhymes: -adu
  • Hyphenation: cer‧ca‧do

Adjective

cercado (feminine cercada, masculine plural cercados, feminine plural cercadas)

  1. fenced (surrounded or enclosed by a fence)
    • 2024 December 13, Vinicius Coimbra, “Com beach tennis e food trucks, complexo esportivo ocupa lugar do antigo Hotel Bassani, em Capão da Canoa”, in Zero Hora‎[1], Porto Alegre: Grupo RBS, archived from the original on 25 December 2024:
      Em frente a um terreno cercado à beira-mar, em Capão da Canoa, no Litoral Norte, uma idosa interrompe a caminhada para espiar o interior do espaço.
      In front of a fenced land by the seaside, in Capão da Canoa, Litoral Norte, an old woman stops her walk to peep the place's interior.

Noun

cercado m (plural cercados)

  1. a fenced enclosure
    • 1891, Machado de Assis, chapter XVII, in Quincas Borba, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 35:
      Lá estava o cão, dentro do cercado, deitado a distancia de um alguidar de comida
      There was the dog, in the enclosure, lying near a food bowl.
  2. (Brazil) playpen
    Synonyms: parque, (Brazil) chiqueirinho

Derived terms

Participle

cercado (feminine cercada, masculine plural cercados, feminine plural cercadas)

  1. past participle of cercar
    • 2025 January 25, Atahualpa Amerise, “Pete Hegseth, o polêmico ex-militar e apresentador de TV que comandará o maior exército do mundo”, in BBC Brasil‎[2], archived from the original on 26 January 2025:
      O processo que levou à sua confirmação foi cercado de controvérsia, com questões sobre sua ideologia e passado turbulento criando divisões até mesmo dentro do Partido Republicano
      The process that lead to his confirmation was surrounded by controversy, with questions about his ideology and turbulent past creating divisions even within the Republican Party.

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θeɾˈkado/ [θeɾˈka.ð̞o] (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /seɾˈkado/ [seɾˈka.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: cer‧ca‧do

Noun

cercado m (plural cercados)

  1. vegetable garden or plot of land surrounded by a palisade
    Synonym: cerrado
  2. palisade
    Synonym: palizada
  3. stockade
    Synonym: estacada

Derived terms

Participle

cercado (feminine cercada, masculine plural cercados, feminine plural cercadas)

  1. past participle of cercar

Further reading

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