salgado

See also: Salgado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese salgado, from Vulgar Latin *salicare (“to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /salˈɡado/ [s̺ɑɫˈɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /salˈɡado/ [s̺ɑɫˈɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /salˈħado/ [s̺ɑɫˈħɑ.ð̞ʊ]

• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: sal‧ga‧do

Participle

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. past participle of salgar

Adjective

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. salty
2. salted

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese salgado, from Vulgar Latin *salicāre (“to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈɡa.du/ [saʊ̯ˈɡa.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈɡa.du/ [saʊ̯ˈɡa.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈɡa.do/ [saʊ̯ˈɡa.do]

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

• Rhymes: -adu
• Homophone: Salgado
• Hyphenation: sal‧ga‧do

Adjective

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. salty
   1. tasting of salt
   2. salted (containing salt)
   3. preserved or treated with salt

      Synonym: ensalmourado

   4. savory; nonsweet

      Antonym: doce

   5. (figurative, of language) coarse, provocative, earthy

      Synonym: malicioso

2. (colloquial) very expensive

   Synonym: caríssimo

   Antonyms: barato, em conta

   preço salgado

   high price

Related terms

• sal
• salada
• salário
• salga
• salgadinho
• salgadio
• salgador
• salgadura
• salgalhada
• salgamento
• salgante
• salgar

 

Noun

salgados

salgado m (plural salgados)

1. any snack, usually fried, that takes salt

   Synonym: salgadinho

   Antonym: doce

Participle

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. past participle of salgar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:salgado.