colorado

See also: Colorado

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish colorado

Pronunciation

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Noun

colorado (plural colorados)

1. A cigar of medium color and strength.
2. A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.

Coordinate terms

(cigar): claro, colorado claro, colorado maduro, double claro, double maduro, maduro, oscuro

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese colorado, from colorar (“to color”). Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish colorado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koloˈɾaðo̝/

Adjective

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. red, reddish

   Que calor! Teño a cara colorada? ― It is so hot! Is my face red?

   Synonyms: roxo, rubio, vermello

2. having color
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 667:

     Et, desque o ouuerõ sacado, estaua o corpo tã yrto que se nõ dobraua a nenhũu cabo, et sua carne muy lĩpa et muy colorado, que semellaua viuo

     And, as soon as they took him out, the body was so stiff that it did not bend to any extent, and his flesh was very clean and colorful, to the point that he seemed alive

References

• “colorado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “colorad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “colorado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “colorado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “colorado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Adjective

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas, comparable)

1. (Brazil) colored, red

   Synonym: colorido

2. (Brazil, soccer) pertaining to, or related to Sport Club Internacional

Noun

colorado m (plural colorados, feminine colorada, feminine plural coloradas)

1. (Brazil, soccer) a player or supporter of Sport Club Internacional sports team

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Spanish

Etymology

From color +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koloˈɾado/, [ko.loˈɾa.ð̞o]

Adjective

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. colored
2. red

   Synonym: rojo

Derived terms

• gato colorado
• pato colorado
• saber más que los ratones colorados

 

Related terms

• color
• coloradote
• colorín

 

Verb

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of colorar.