delicado

Learned borrowing from Latin delicātus.

delicado (feminine delicada, masculine plural delicados, feminine plural delicadas)

1. delicate

• delicadamente

• delgado

• “delicado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Learned borrowing from Latin dēlicātus (“charming; delicate”). Compare the inherited doublet delgado.

• Hyphenation: de‧li‧ca‧do

delicado (feminine delicada, masculine plural delicados, feminine plural delicadas, comparable, comparative mais delicado, superlative o mais delicado or delicadíssimo, diminutive delicadinho)

1. delicate (easily damaged)

   Synonym: frágil

2. delicate (characterized by a fine structure or thin lines)
3. refined (showing or having good feelings)

• “delicado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Latin delicātus. Doublet of delgado.

• IPA^(key): /deliˈkado/ [d̪e.liˈka.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: de‧li‧ca‧do

delicado (feminine delicada, masculine plural delicados, feminine plural delicadas)

1. delicate
2. fragile
3. dainty, fine, refined
4. fussy
5. subtle (flavor, color)
6. (Argentina, derogatory) effeminate, gay

• → Cebuano: delikado
• → Tagalog: delikado

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