machado

See also: Machado

Galician

Galician Bronze Age machados ("axes"), Hoard of Samieira

Etymology

Unclear. Perhaps from Latin marculus (“hammer”). Compare sacho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃaðo̝/

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

1. axe
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: brosa, machada

Derived terms

• a machado

Related terms

• machada
• macheta

 

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “machado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• 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

---

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin marculatus, from marculus (“hammer”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃa.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃa.do/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈʃa.du/ [mɐˈʃa.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈʃa.du/ [mɐˈʃa.ðu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈt͡ʃa.du/ [mɐˈt͡ʃa.ðu]

• IPA^(key): /ma.ˈʃa.do/
• Homophone: Machado
• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: ma‧cha‧do

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

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

Derived terms

• machadão (augmentative)
• machadinho (diminutive)

 

• machada
• machadada
• machadar
• machadiano
• machadinha
• Machado
• machador

 

Descendants

• → Tetum: maxadu

---

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃado/ [maˈt͡ʃa.ð̞o]

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

1. A short wood-axe

Participle

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

1. masculine singular past participle of machar

Further reading

• “machado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014