colorado

Borrowed from Spanish colorado.

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colorado (plural colorados)

1. A cigar of medium color and strength.
2. A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.

(cigar): claro, colorado claro, colorado maduro, double claro, double maduro, maduro, oscuro

From Old Galician-Portuguese colorado, from colorar (“to color”). Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish colorado.

• IPA^(key): /koloˈɾaðo̝/

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. red, reddish

   Synonyms: roxo, rubio, vermello

   Que calor! Teño a cara colorada? ― It is so hot! Is my face red?

2. having color
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 667:

     Et, desque o ouuerõ sacado, estaua o corpo tã yrto que se nõ dobraua a nenhũu cabo, et sua carne muy lĩpa et muy colorado, que semellaua viuo

     And, as soon as they took him out, the body was so stiff that it did not bend to any extent, and his flesh was very clean and colorful, to the point that he seemed alive

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese colorado.

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. (Brazil) colored, red

   Synonym: colorido

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colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. (Brazil, soccer) pertaining to, or related to Sport Club Internacional

colorado m (plural colorados, feminine colorada, feminine plural coloradas)

1. (Brazil, soccer) a player or supporter of Sport Club Internacional sports team

Inherited from Latin colōrātus. By surface analysis, color +‎ -ado.

• IPA^(key): /koloˈɾado/ [ko.loˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: co‧lo‧ra‧do

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. colored
2. red

   Synonym: rojo

3. (obsolete) risqué, indecent

   Synonym: verde

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. past participle of colorar

• “colorado”, 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