côvado

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese côbedo, from Latin cubitum (possibly taken as a semi-learned term; compare the likely inherited doublet coto and the later borrowing cúbito). Cf. also cotovelo and Spanish codo.

Noun

côvado m (plural côvados)

1. cubit (historical unit of length equal to the length of the forearm)

Synonyms

• cúbito

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