machado

Unclear. Perhaps from Latin marculus (“hammer”). Compare sacho.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃado/ [maˈt͡ʃa.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: ma‧cha‧do

machado m (plural machados)

1. axe

   Synonyms: brosa, machada

   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

     quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca et hun machado et hun escoupre et duas serras de mao

     four drills and a hatchet and a forest adze and an axe and a chisel and two hand saws

• a machado

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “machado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “machado”, 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), “machado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “machado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin marculātus, from marculus (“hammer”).

• Homophone: Machado
• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: ma‧cha‧do

machado m (plural machados)

1. axe (tool and weapon consisting of a heavy blade on the end of a shaft)

• → Old Tupi: maxaru
• → Tetum: maxadu

Deverbal from machar (“to pound”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃado/ [maˈt͡ʃa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ma‧cha‧do

machado m (plural machados)

1. short wood-axe

machado (feminine machada, masculine plural machados, feminine plural machadas)

1. past participle of machar

• “machado”, 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