pardo

English

Alternative forms

• pardao, pardau

Etymology

Borrowing 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 Portuguese pardo, from Latin pardus.

Adjective

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

1. brown, beige

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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. a multiracial person

   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.

See also

• amarelo, branco, negro
• mulato

Adjective

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

1. brown
2. mulatto; brown-skinned (but not black)
3. grayish, dun

Synonyms

• (brown): marrom

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pardus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpardo/, [ˈparðo]

Adjective

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

1. brown

   Synonyms: marrón

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

Derived terms

• pardusco
• oso pardo

Related terms

• gatopardo
• guepardo
• pardal
• leopardo

Noun

pardo m (plural pardos)

1. (poetic, literary) leopard

Synonyms

• leopardo, pantera

Further reading

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