cayado
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *caiātus, from Late Latin caia (“staff”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʝado/ [kaˈʝa.ð̞o]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃado/ [kaˈʃa.ð̞o]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒado/ [kaˈʒa.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: ca‧ya‧do
- Homophone: callado
Noun
cayado m (plural cayados)
- staff, crook
- 1922, Federico García Lorca, Primeras Canciones, Cuatro Baladas Amarillas, I:
- Ni ovejas blancas ni perro
ni cayado, ni amor tienes.- You have neither white sheep nor a dog
nor crook nor love.
- You have neither white sheep nor a dog
- 1922, Federico García Lorca, Primeras Canciones, Cuatro Baladas Amarillas, I:
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cayado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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