cadeado

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cadẽado (“lock”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin catēnātum, derived from Latin catēna (“chain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaðeˈaðo̝]

Noun

cadeado f (plural cadeados)

1. padlock
   • 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:

     pareçeu y presente Gonçalvo Fiel, moordomo da dita villa, e presentou ao dito juis, alcaldes, jurado e procuradores, a Gonçalvo de Carcaçia preso dos pees con huus adobes e hũa cadea grosa de ferro fechada con hũu cadeado

     there appeared Gonzalvo Fiel, butler of the aforementioned town, to present to the mentioned judge, councilors, juror, and council agent one Gonzalvo of Carcarcía, his feet fettered with some bricks and a thick iron chain which was locked with a padlock

Related terms

• cadea

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cadeado”, 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), “cadead”, 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), “cadeado”, 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), “cadeado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

cadeado

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cadẽado, from Late Latin catēnātum, derived from Latin catēna (“chain”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.d͡ʒiˈa.du/ [ka.d͡ʒɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈd͡ʒja.du/, /ka.deˈa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.d͡ʒiˈa.du/ [ka.d͡ʒɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /kaˈd͡ʒja.du/, /ka.deˈa.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.deˈa.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈdja.du/ [kɐˈðja.ðu]

• Hyphenation: ca‧de‧a‧do

Noun

cadeado m (plural cadeados)

1. padlock (type of lock)

   Synonym: aloquete (northern Portugal)

Related terms

• cadeia
• chave

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Katëaat

Participle

cadeado (feminine cadeada, masculine plural cadeados, feminine plural cadeadas)

1. past participle of cadear

Adjective

cadeado (feminine cadeada, masculine plural cadeados, feminine plural cadeadas, not comparable)

1. locked with a padlock

Further reading

• “cadeado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cadeado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025