madrugada

From Old Galician-Portuguese madurgada (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from the verb madurgar (Modern Galician madrugar).

• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: ma‧dru‧ga‧da

madrugada f (plural madrugadas)

1. the period between midnight and sunrise; early morning

   Hyponym: altas horas

2. dawn

   Synonyms: abrente, alborada, amañecida

• madrugar

• “madurgada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “madurgada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “madrugada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “madrugada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “madrugada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese madrugada.

madrugada

1. dawn

madrugada f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאדֿרוגאדֿא, plural madrugadas)

1. dawn, early morning

From madrugado, from the verb madrugar.

• Hyphenation: ma‧dru‧ga‧da

madrugada f (plural madrugadas)

1. the period between midnight and sunrise; early morning

   Synonym: (slang) madruga

2. (figurative) dawn (the first stages of a process)

   Synonyms: alvorada, nascer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:madrugada.

• madrugar

• amanhecer
• manhã

madrugada f sg

1. feminine singular of madrugado

From the past participle of madrugar.

• IPA^(key): /madɾuˈɡada/ [ma.ð̞ɾuˈɣ̞a.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: ma‧dru‧ga‧da

madrugada f (plural madrugadas)

1. dawn
2. early hours of the morning, before dawn; the period of time between midnight and sunrise

• alba
• amanecer
• mañana

madrugada f sg

1. feminine singular of madrugado

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