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delgado
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese delgado, from Latin dēlicātus. Compare Portuguese delgado.
Rhymes: -ado
Hyphenation: del‧ga‧do
delgado (feminine delgada, masculine plural delgados, feminine plural delgadas)
- thin
- 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata
twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings
- 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
- slender, slim
- c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 123:
Et guareçeu daquela gordura et tornou a seer delgado como outro ome que delgado [fos]se.
And he healed of said obesity and came back to be slim as another man who is slim
- c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 123:
- (dated) fine, delicate
- Delgado
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “delgado”, 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), “delgado”, 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), “delgado”, 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), “delgado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “delgado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Old Galician-Portuguese
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Inherited from Latin dēlicātus.
delgado m (plural delgados, feminine delgada, feminine plural delgadas)
- Galician: delgado
- Portuguese: delgado
- Universo Cantigas - "delgado"
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese delgado, from Latin dēlicātus. Doublet of delicado, a borrowing. Compare Galician delgado.
(Brazil) IPA(key): /dewˈɡa.du/ [deʊ̯ˈɡa.du]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /dewˈɡa.do/ [deʊ̯ˈɡa.do]
Hyphenation: del‧ga‧do
delgado (feminine delgada, masculine plural delgados, feminine plural delgadas, comparable, comparative mais delgado, superlative o mais delgado or delgadíssimo, diminutive delgadinho)
- thin (having little thickness)
Synonyms: esguio, fino
Antonyms: espesso, grosso - slender; slim (having little body fat or flesh)
Synonyms: esbelto, fino, magro
Antonyms: gordo, obeso - (of a tube) having a small diameter
- (of clouds, fog, mist, etc) sparse (not dense)
Synonyms: esparso, ralo
Antonyms: denso, espesso
“delgado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“delgado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Inherited from Latin dēlicātus and doublet of delicado. Compare also English delicate.
delgado (feminine delgada, masculine plural delgados, feminine plural delgadas, superlative delgadísimo)
“delgado”, 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