picado

See also: Picado

Galician

Etymology

From picar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈkado/ [piˈkɑ.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: pi‧ca‧do

Participle

picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)

1. past participle of picar

Adjective

picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)

1. chopped, minced, ground
2. having bites
3. (of wine) spoiled
4. (of a tooth) decayed
5. (of people) piqued
   • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

     E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.

     And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son

6. (of the sea) choppy (having many small, rough waves)
7. (music) staccato (with each note played for a very short duration)

Related terms

• picar

References

• “picado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “picado”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “picado”, 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), “picado”, 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), “picado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “picado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈka.du/

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

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

• Hyphenation: pi‧ca‧do

Adjective

picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)

1. having insect bites
2. hash (chopped into small pieces)
3. (of the sea) choppy (having many small, rough waves)
4. (music) staccato (with each note played for a very short duration)

   Synonym: staccato

Noun

picado m (plural picados)

1. finely chopped food

   Synonym: picadinho

2. (music) staccato (articulation in with each note played for a very short duration)

   Synonym: staccato

Participle

picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)

1. past participle of picar

Further reading

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• picao (colloquial)

Etymology

Past participle of picar. Equivalent to picar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard) /piˈkado/ [piˈka.ð̞o], (colloquial) /piˈkao/ [piˈka.o]
• Rhymes: -ado, -ao
• Syllabification: pi‧ca‧do

Adjective

picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)

1. (colloquial) salty, annoyed, resentful, or butthurt, especially after losing a game, an argument, or being teased.

   Juan ha perdido al FIFA y ahora está muy picado.

   Juan lost at FIFA and now he's very salty.

2. (colloquial) fiercely competitive or hooked on beating someone; having a strong rivalry.

   Esos dos están picados a ver quién saca mejores notas.

   Those two are in a fierce rivalry to see who gets better grades.

3. (of wine or food) sour, spoiled, or having turned into vinegar.

   Camarero, este vino está picado, ¿nos trae otra botella?

   Waiter, this wine has gone sour, can you bring us another bottle?

4. (of the sea) choppy, rough.

   No saldremos a navegar hoy, el mar está muy picado.

   We won't go sailing today, the sea is very choppy.

Usage notes

• In the colloquial senses of being annoyed, "salty," or competitive, this word functions as an adjective indicating a state of being, and is therefore almost exclusively used with the verb estar (e.g., estar picado).
• It is the resulting state of the pronominal verb picarse (to get annoyed/salty, to take offense).
• In colloquial speech, particularly in Andalusia and casual registers across Spain, the participle is frequently pronounced without the intervocalic "d" (e.g., estar picao).

Synonyms

• (annoyed, salty): Synonyms: mosqueado, rebotado, chinado, (Latin America) ardido

Related terms

• en picado
• picarse
• pique

Participle

picado (feminine picada, masculine plural picados, feminine plural picadas)

1. past participle of picar

Further reading

• “picado”, 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