ferrado

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin ferrātus.

Adjective

1. fitted with horseshoes
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 65:

     Nota que quando O potro for mais Nouo et mais çedo ferrado, tanto auera as huñas molles et mais fraqas, porque o huso dandar sem ferraduras crja as huñas mais duras

     Note that the sooner that the colt is horseshoed, the softer and weaker that their hooves will be, because walking with no horseshoe make the hooves stronger

2. garnished or reinforced with iron

Derived terms

• desferrado

Verb

Related terms

• ferreiro
• ferro

Etymology 2

13th century. From Medieval Latin modius ferrātus.

Ferrado

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈraðo̝/

Noun

ferrado m (plural ferrados)

1. a unit of dry measure (especially for grain) of some 12-18 L, depending on the region of Galicia
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses

     eight fanegas [~32 ferrados] of legume, both beans and peas, and two ferrados of chestnuts

   • 1449, José-Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 374:

     o dicto moesteiro abia tres moyos ferrados de pan en a dicta iglesia de Buyercos en cada hun anno

     the aforementioned monastery has right to three reinforced modii [ferrados] of cereals in the aforementioned church of Buxercos, per uyear

2. a trapezoidal box holding that capacity
3. a unit of area of some 400 to 800 m²; tentatively normalized to 500 m²

Synonyms

• celamín
• tega

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ferrado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “ferrado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. fitted with horseshoes
2. (Brazil, slang) screwed (beset with difficult or impossible situation)

Related terms

• ferreiro

Verb

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