cruzado

See also: Cruzado

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cruzado. Doublet of cruciate.

Noun

cruzado (plural cruzados or cruzadoes)

1. The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
2. An old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries.
3. An old monetary unit of Castile in the 14th century.

Related terms

• cruzeiro
• real

Translations

the monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990

• Russian: крузадо (ru) (kruzado)

an old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries

• Russian: крузадо (ru) (kruzado)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cruzado, from cruz (“cross”) +‎ -ado. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish cruzado.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɾuˈθado/ [kɾuˈθa.ð̞ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /kɾuˈθado/ [kɾuˈθa.ð̞ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /kɾuˈsado/ [kɾuˈsa.ð̞ʊ]

• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: cru‧za‧do

Adjective

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. crossed
2. crossbred

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

1. crusader
2. cruzado (old monetary unit of Castile, Portugal, Brazil)
   • 1371, A. López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 381:

     ouvo en estas viñas triinta e seys çestos de huvas e de conposta. Et que custara o carreto tres barbudas cada çesto, que montaron çento e oyto barbudas, que montaron en crusados mill e seysçentos e viinte crusados.

     there were in this vineyard thirty-six baskets of grapes and compote. And that the carriage costed three barbudas each basket, amounting to a hundred and eight barbudas, which amounted in cruzados to one thousand and six hundred and twenty cruzados.

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cruzado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cruzado”, 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), “cruzado”, 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), “cruzado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cruzado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “cruzado”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cruzado m (definite singular cruzadoen, indefinite plural cruzado or cruzados, definite plural cruzadoene)

1. (historical, numismatics) cruzado

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzadoen)

1. (historical, numismatics) cruzado

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾuˈza.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾuˈza.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾuˈza.do/

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

• Hyphenation: cru‧za‧do

Etymology 1

From cruz (“cross”) +‎ -ado.

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

1. cruzado (old monetary unit of Brazil)
2. cruzado (old monetary unit of Portugal)
3. crusader

Etymology 2

Past participle of cruzar.

Adjective

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. crossed

Participle

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. past participle of cruzar

Further reading

• “cruzado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cruzado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾuˈθado/ [kɾuˈθa.ð̞o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kɾuˈsado/ [kɾuˈsa.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: cru‧za‧do

Adjective

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. crossed

Derived terms

• con las manos cruzadas
• contaminación cruzada
• fuego cruzado
• primo cruzado

Noun

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

1. crusader

Participle

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. past participle of cruzar

Further reading

• “cruzado”, 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