soldado

Borrowed from Spanish soldado.

soldado (plural soldados or soldadoes)

1. A soldier, in Spanish-speaking contexts.

• laddoos

Borrowed from Spanish soldado.

• IPA^(key): /solˈdado/ [sol̪ˈd̪a.d̪o]
• Hyphenation: sol‧da‧do

soldado (plural soldados, Basahan spelling ᜐᜓᜎ᜔ᜇᜇᜓ)

1. soldier

   Synonyms: militar, hukbo

Borrowed from Spanish soldado.

soldado

1. soldier

soldado (accusative singular soldadon, plural soldadoj, accusative plural soldadojn)

1. misspelling of soldato

From Old Galician-Portuguese soldado, corresponding to soldo (“military salary”) +‎ -ado. Perhaps a calque or imitation of Italian soldato, from the past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).

• IPA^(key): [solˈdaðʊ]

soldado (feminine soldada, masculine plural soldados, feminine plural soldadas)

1. (archaic) salaried, hired
   • 1473, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 30:

     con o permiso do noso Rey lebantou a terra as santas hirmandades das cibdades e vilas pagando cada hua seys omes soldados de a cabalo para conter e acudir ao remedio de tantos males

     with the permission of our King, the Holly Brotherhoods of cities and towns raised the country, paying each one six hired mounted men for counter and solve so many wrongs

soldado m (plural soldados)

1. soldier

   Synonym: militar

   • c. 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     De soldados os camiños enpachados, furtando carros e bestas, queimando caniços e zestas

     Of soldiers the roads are stuffed, stealing carts and mares, burning wattles and baskets

2. private

From Old Galician-Portuguese soldado (“mended”), from soldar (“to weld; to mend”).

• IPA^(key): [solˈdaðʊ]

soldado (feminine soldada, masculine plural soldados, feminine plural soldadas)

1. past participle of soldar

soldado (feminine soldada, masculine plural soldados, feminine plural soldadas)

1. soldered, welded
2. (of bones) mended

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

Borrowed from Spanish soldado.

soldado

1. soldier

Borrowed from Spanish soldado.

• IPA^(key): /solˈdado/ [solˈda.do]
• Hyphenation: sol‧da‧do

soldado

1. soldier

Likely a derivative of Old Spanish sueldo (“coin”); compare Portuguese soldado, Italian soldato, French soldat. It could also be a calque or imitation of Italian soldato, from the past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).^[1]

soldado m (Hebrew spelling סולדאדו)^[2]

1. soldier (infantry)

   Synonym: askier

   Hypernyms: gerreador, gerrero

   • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, translated by Isaac Jerusalmi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 276:

     I ala onze [6 AM], ala turka, vinyeron en grande akompanyamyento delos askyeres turkos adelantre i detras, kompanyas de soldados de kada nasyon ke fueron dezbarkados delas naves, djunto todos los viche-amirales i komandantes, i ofisyeres de kada nave ke se topo en muestro porto.

     And at eleven [6 A.M.], a great many Turkish soldiers came ahead of and behind the Turk, companies of soldiers from every nation disembarked from the ships, together with all the vice-admirals, commanders, and officers from every ship found in our port.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soldado (Hebrew spelling סולדאדו)^[2]

1. past participle of soldar

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: sol‧da‧do

From Old Galician-Portuguese soldado, corresponding to soldo (“military salary”) +‎ -ado. A calque or imitation of Italian soldato, from the past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).^[1]

Compare Spanish soldado, Italian soldato, French soldat.

soldado m or f by sense or (see usage notes) m (plural soldados, feminine soldada, feminine plural soldadas)

1. (military) soldier (member of an army)
2. (figurative) soldier; warrior (person who fights for a cause)

There are different approaches to the gender of this word:

• soldado as an epicene noun: masculine when referring to a male soldier and feminine when referring to a female soldier;
• soldado as a masculine noun, used for male and female soldiers;
• soldado m for male soldiers and soldada f for female soldiers.

• → Guajajára: zurar
• → Konkani: सोल्दाद (soldād)
• → Língua Geral Amazônica: surara
  • Nheengatu: surara
• → Makhuwa: surutato
• → Malay: serdadu
  • > Indonesian: serdadu (inherited)
  • → Javanese: ꦱꦫꦝꦝꦸ (saradhadhu)
  • → Petjo: serdadoe, soldadoe
• → Marathi: सोल्दाद (soldād)
• → Sinhalese: සොල්දාදුවා (soldāduwā)
• → Tetum: soldadu

From soldar +‎ -ado.

• Hyphenation: sol‧da‧do

soldado (feminine soldada, masculine plural soldados, feminine plural soldadas)

1. soldered (joined together by soldering)

soldado (feminine soldada, masculine plural soldados, feminine plural soldadas)

1. past participle of soldar

A derivative of sueldo (“military salary”) +‎ -ado; compare Portuguese soldado, Italian soldato, French soldat. A calque or imitation of Italian soldato, from the past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /solˈdado/ [sol̪ˈd̪a.ð̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: sol‧da‧do

soldado m or f by sense (plural soldados)

1. soldier

   Synonyms: milico, militar

• > Chavacano: soldao (inherited)
• → Basque: soldadu
• → Cebuano: sundalo
• → Chamicuro: soltalo
• → Chayuco Mixtec: zandaru
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: soldado
• → English: soldado
• → Ilocano: soldado
• → Maguindanao: sundalu
• → Navajo: siláo
• → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: jandaru
• → Tataltepec Chatino: stadu, staru
• → Tagalog: sundalo
• → Tausug: sundalu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soldado (feminine soldada, masculine plural soldados, feminine plural soldadas)

1. past participle of soldar

• “soldado”, 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