machado

See also: Machado

Galician

Galician Bronze Age machados ("axes"), Hoard of Samieira

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese machado, perhaps from Latin marculus (“hammer”). Compare sacho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃado/ [maˈt͡ʃa.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: ma‧cha‧do

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

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Noun

machado m (plural machados)

1. axe

   Synonyms: brosa, machada

   • 2006, “O lobo sen rabo [The tailless wolf]”, in Henrique Harguindey, Maruxa Barrio, compilers, Antoloxía do conto popular galego [Antology of popular Galician tales], 6th edition, Vigo: Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 66:

     Un carpinteiro que estaba por riba do carballo deixoulle caer o machado e cortoulle o rabo e o lobo marchou máis enfadado.

     A carpenter riding his horse let his axe fall, cutting the wolf's tail off and it left even angier.

Derived terms

• a machado

Related terms

• machada
• macheta

Descendants

• → Ambonese Malay: mancadu

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “machado”, 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), “machado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “machado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃado/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: ma‧cha‧do

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

1. axe

   Synonym: acha

   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

     quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca et hun machado et hun escoupre et duas serras de mao

     four drills and a hatchet and a forest adze and an axe and a chisel and two hand saws

Derived terms

• Machado

Descendants

• Galician: machado
• Portuguese: machado

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “machado”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “machado”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese machado, from Latin marculātus, from marculus (“hammer”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced? Particularly: “for the Latin etymon; OGP is attested”)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃa.du/

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

 

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈʃa.du/ [mɐˈʃa.ðu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈt͡ʃa.du/ [mɐˈt͡ʃa.ðu]

• Homophone: Machado
• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: ma‧cha‧do

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

1. axe (tool and weapon consisting of a heavy blade on the end of a shaft)

Derived terms

• machadão (augmentative)
• machadinho (diminutive)

• machada
• machadada
• machadar
• machadiano
• machadinha
• Machado
• machador

Descendants

• → Old Tupi: maxaru
• → Tetum: maxadu

Further reading

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

Spanish

Con mi machado puedo partir madera con más facilidad. ― With my hatchet I can chop down wood more easily.

Etymology

Deverbal from machar (“to pound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃado/ [maˈt͡ʃa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ma‧cha‧do

Noun

machado m (plural machados)

1. short wood-axe

Participle

machado (feminine machada, masculine plural machados, feminine plural machadas)

1. past participle of machar

Further reading

• “machado”, 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