mollado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mollado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Past participle of mollar, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin mollīre. Compare Portuguese molhado, Spanish mojado, Catalan mullat, Occitan molhat.

Adjective

mollado (feminine mollada, masculine plural mollados, feminine plural molladas)

1. covered with or impregnated with liquid; wet

   Synonyms: empapado, enchoupado

   Antonyms: enxoito, seco

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 519:

     Tanto que fuy manãa, fezo o sol muy claro et muy bõo, et despois cõmeçou d'escureçer et de chouer et uentar muyto, et todos andauã mollados et anoiados

     As soon as it dawned it was sunny and clear, but then it darkened and it rained and the wind blew strongly, and everyone was wet and annoyed

Participle

mollado (feminine mollada, masculine plural mollados, feminine plural molladas)

1. past participle of mollar

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mollar”, 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), “mollad”, 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), “mollado”, 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), “mollado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mollado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN