cerrado

English

Extent of cerrado.

Typical cerrado landscape.

Etymology

From Portuguese cerrado, from cerrar (“to shut”).

Noun

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

1. (biogeography, uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
2. (biogeography, countable) A region with this biome.

Anagrams

• corrade

Galician

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.du/ [seˈha.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.du/ [seˈha.du]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.du/ [seˈχa.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.do/ [seˈha.do]

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

• Hyphenation: cer‧ra‧do
• Homophone: serrado

Adjective

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. closed, shut
2. thick, dense

Noun

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

1. cerrado
2. a region with this biome
3. a biome similar to it, such as scrub

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

Further reading

• “cerrado” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “cerrado” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “cerrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cerrado” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “cerrado” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cerrado” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of cerrar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈrado/ [θeˈra.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈrado/ [seˈra.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ce‧rra‧do
• Homophone: (Latin America) serrado

Adjective

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. shut, closed

   El baúl está cerrado.

   The trunk is shut.

   Gracias por mantener la boca cerrada.

   Thanks for keeping your mouth shut.

2. closed off (personality trait)

Derived terms

• a puerta cerrada
• a puertas cerradas
• circuito cerrado
• en boca cerrada no entran moscas
• libro cerrado (“closed book”) (idiomatic)
• noche cerrada

 

Noun

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

1. Synonym of cercado

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

Further reading

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