galápago
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish galapago, from Paleo-Hispanic. Compare Catalan calàpet (“toad”), and Portuguese cágado (“turtle, terrapin”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]galápago m (plural galápagos)
- any of several species of turtle
- (Ecuador) giant tortoise
- Synonym: tortuga gigante
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “galápago”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 26
Further reading
[edit]- “galápago”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from a Paleo-Hispanic substrate
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/apaɡo
- Rhymes:Spanish/apaɡo/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Ecuadorian Spanish
- es:Turtles