cerda

From Late Latin setula, diminutive of Latin sēta, saeta (“thick hair”). Compare Spanish cerda, Italian setola (“bristle”).

• Hyphenation: cer‧da

cerda f (plural cerdas)

1. bristle (stiff or coarse hair)

• ceda

Disputed. Perhaps from Late Latin setula, diminutive of Latin sēta, saeta (“thick hair”) (compare Italian setola (“bristle”)), but the initial and the liquid would be irregular. Anders proposes a source in Vulgar Latin cirra (“lock, tuft of hair”), from Latin cirrus, influenced by saeta.[1] Also compare Basque zerri (“pig”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾda/ [ˈθeɾ.ð̞a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈseɾda/ [ˈseɾ.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɾda
• Syllabification: cer‧da

cerda f (plural cerdas, masculine cerdo, masculine plural cerdos)

1. sow (female pig)
2. bristle (stiff or coarse hair)
3. (colloquial, figurative) pig, slob (woman)
4. (derogatory) bitch, slut
   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 12:

     A Pedro no le mola nada hablar conmigo de su cerda. Está muy enamorado y no le gusta que me ría de él.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

cerda

1. feminine singular of cerdo

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