pardo

English

Alternative forms

• pardao, pardau

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pardao (an obsolete spelling of pardau), from Sanskrit प्रतापः (pratāpaḥ), which was written on the coins.

Noun

pardo (plural pardos or pardoes)

1. (historical) A former money of account in Goa, India.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pardo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Padro

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pardo, from Latin pardus. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish pardo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾðo̝/

Adjective

pardo m (feminine singular parda, masculine plural pardos, feminine plural pardas)

1. brown

   Synonyms: castaño, marrón

Derived terms

• Pardo

Noun

pardo m (plural pardos)

1. burel
   • 1434, M. Lucas Alvarez; M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 358:

     mando a Pedro seu fillo çinquo varas de pardo para huna capa

     I bequeath Peter, his son, five yards of brown [cloth, i.e. burel] for a cloak

   Synonym: burel

References

• “pardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pardo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pardo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek παρδός (pardós).

Noun

pardo m (plural pardi)

1. (obsolete) pard, leopard, panther

Derived terms

• gattopardo

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Latin

Noun

pardō

1. dative singular of pardus
2. ablative singular of pardus

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pardo, from Latin pardus.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʁ.du/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾ.ðu/
• Hyphenation: par‧do

Noun

pardo m (plural pardos, feminine parda, feminine plural pardas)

1. multiracial person

   Coordinate terms: amarelo, branco, indígena, negro

   Hyponyms: caboclo, cafuzo, mameluco, mestiço, mulato

   Pardo é um termo oficial no Brasil formalmente utilizado para descrever alguém de origem multirracial.

   Pardo is an official term used formally in Brazil to describe someone of multiracial origins.

Adjective

pardo m (feminine singular parda, masculine plural pardos, feminine plural pardas, not comparable)

1. brown

   Synonym: marrom

2. mulatto; brown-skinned (but not black)

   Synonym: moreno

3. grayish, dun

Further reading

• pardos on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pardus.

Adjective

pardo (feminine singular parda, masculine plural pardos, feminine plural pardas)

1. brown

   Synonym: marrón

2. (of weather) dull, overcast
3. (of a voice) gruff, hoarse

Derived terms

• águila parda
• alga parda
• de noche todos los gatos son pardos
• irse de picos pardos
• oso pardo
• pardillo
• pardusco
• porrón pardo

 

Related terms

• gatopardo
• guepardo
• pardal
• leopardo

Noun

pardo m (plural pardos)

1. (poetic, literary) leopard

   Synonyms: leopardo, pantera

Anagrams

• podar, podrá, prado

Further reading

• “pardo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.