helado

From Spanish helado.

helado (countable and uncountable, plural helados)

1. Spanish or Latin American ice cream.
   • 1999 October 19, Alexandra Lange, “50 Ways to Love . . . Park Slope (31-40)”, in New York‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 October 2007:

     Soul food, African crafts, and helado sellers line the service streets on either side of the parkway, and traffic halts on all side streets to let the masses promenade.

   • 2006 June 21, Julia Moskin, Kim Severson, “The World’s Cups”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 February 2021:

     "At my school the Chinese kids go for bubble tea after school, the Puerto Ricans get batidos and the other Latin girls like the helados from the street cart," said Shirley Wong, an eighth grader at a parochial school in Chinatown.

   • 2024 August 10, Edwin Goei, “You’re gonna need a bigger cone: 3 new ice cream shops in O.C. worth screaming for”, in Daily Pilot‎^[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 August 2024:

     A medium cup of helado at Pampas Helado Argentina in Aliso Viejo includes two flavors, which can be the chocolate alfajor and banana split.

Inherited from Latin gelātus, perfect passive participle of Latin gelō (“to freeze”). Cognate to Italian gelato. By surface analysis, helar (“to freeze, to cool”) +‎ -ado (past participle suffix). Literally, “frozen.”

• IPA^(key): /eˈlado/ [eˈla.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: he‧la‧do

helado (feminine helada, masculine plural helados, feminine plural heladas, superlative heladísimo)

1. icy, frozen
2. shocked

   Synonym: conmocionado

helado m (plural helados)

1. ice cream

   Synonyms: sorbete (El Salvador), nieve (Mexico)

2. popsicle, ice pop

   Synonyms: helado de agua, paleta, polo (Spain)

helado (feminine helada, masculine plural helados, feminine plural heladas)

1. past participle of helar

• “helado”, 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