cadejo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cross of cadarzo (“floss”) and madeja (“skein, ball of yarn”). The first word is from Ancient Greek ἀκάθαρτος (akáthartos, “unclean”).
Noun
[edit]cadejo m (plural cadejos)
- tangle (of hair)
- a supernatural spirit, dog-shaped creature with red eyes, that would increase size when assaulted, wanders the isolated roads at night
Further reading
[edit]- “cadejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN