garrido

From Old Galician-Portuguese garrido (“cheerful”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from garrir.

• IPA^(key): [ɡaˈriðʊ]

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. past participle of garrir

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. lush, fresh-looking; healthy; strong

   Boa roupa e boa vida, fan á vella garrida. (proverb) ― Good clothes and good life make the old woman healthy (and fresh looking).

   • c1350, K. M. Parker. (ed.) (1975), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 120:

     forõ moy ledos todos por que era el [moy] bẽ garrido

     all of them were very happy, because he was well healed

   • 1355, Alfonso Álvarez Villasandino:

     por fogir de fealdade, | e fui ver con omildade | mui garrida catadura.

     for fleeing ugliness, | and I went see with humbleness | very beauty countenance.

   Synonym: louzán

2. blonde; auburn
3. (archaic) cheerful; frivolous; brainless

garrido m (plural garridos)

1. a generic precious item

• garrir

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

From garrir.

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. past participle of garrir

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. garish, showy, brash

   Synonym: vistoso

2. elegant

   Synonym: elegante

3. bright, cheerful

   Synonyms: alegre, animado

   • 1969, Jorge Ben Jor, “Take It Easy My Brother Charles”:

     Rosa é a flor da simpatia / É a flor escolhida no dia / Do primeiro encontro do nosso dia / Com a vida querida / Com a vida mais garrida

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• “garrido”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Past participle of Old Spanish garrir (“to chat, prattle”), from Latin garrīre (“to chatter”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrido/ [ɡaˈri.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: ga‧rri‧do

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. hefty; strong; strong-looking
2. (of a woman) good-looking; beauteous
3. elegant; gentlemanly

• → Catalan: garrit

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. past participle of garrir

• “garrido”, 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