salado
Spanish
Etymology
Past participle of salar (“to salt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saˈlado/ [saˈla.ð̞o]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: sa‧la‧do
Adjective
salado (feminine salada, masculine plural salados, feminine plural saladas)
- salty
- salted
- brackish
- Synonym: salobre
- nice, pleasant, likable (of a person)
- (Latin America, colloquial) unlucky (of a person)
- (Argentina, Chile, colloquial) expensive
- Synonyms: caro, costoso, prohibitivo
- Antonyms: barato, económico
- (Uruguay, colloquial) awesome
- (Uruguay, colloquial) difficult, hard
Derived terms
Participle
salado (feminine salada, masculine plural salados, feminine plural saladas)
- past participle of salar
Further reading
- “salado”, 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