callado

Galician

Etymology

Past participle of callar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑ.ˈʎa.ðʊ]

Participle

callado (feminine callada, masculine plural callados, feminine plural calladas)

1. past participle of callar

Adjective

callado (feminine callada, masculine plural callados, feminine plural calladas)

1. coagulated, curdled
2. (of people) full-grown
3. (of a cow) very fat

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coallad”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “callado”, 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), “callado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “callado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From callar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝado/ [kaˈʝa.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝado/ [kaˈʝa.ð̞o] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈʎado/ [kaˈʎa.ð̞o] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈʃado/ [kaˈʃa.ð̞o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈʒado/ [kaˈʒa.ð̞o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ca‧lla‧do
• Homophone: cayado

Adjective

callado (feminine callada, masculine plural callados, feminine plural calladas)

1. quiet, silent

   Synonyms: quieto, tranquilo, silencioso

Participle

callado (feminine callada, masculine plural callados, feminine plural calladas)

1. past participle of callar

Further reading

• “callado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025