veado

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese veado / vẽado, from Latin vēnātus, from vēnor (“to hunt”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veˈa.du/, /viˈa.du/ [vɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvja.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veˈa.du/, /viˈa.du/ [vɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvja.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veˈa.do/

 

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvja.du/ [ˈvja.ðu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbja.du/ [ˈbja.ðu]

• Rhymes: -adu
• Homophone: viado (Brazil, one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: ve‧a‧do

Noun

veado m (plural veados)

1. deer (animal)

   Synonym: cervo

2. (obsolete) game (any wild animal hunted for food or sport)

Usage notes

Many Brazilian speakers do not pronounce the ⟨e⟩ in this word as /i/, though it would otherwise be expected. This is potentially to prevent confusion with viado, an offensive term which may derive from a pronunciation spelling of veado.

Related terms

• veação

Etymology 2

Possibly from etymology 1. See viado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈa.du/ [vɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvja.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈa.du/ [vɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvja.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈa.do/ [vɪˈa.do], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvja.do/

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: ve‧a‧do

Noun

veado m (plural veados)

1. alternative spelling of viado (“homosexual man”)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bicha

   • 2015, Bronson Heleno, Memórias putas de uma vida, Clube de Autores, page 59:

     Dentro do carro, meu irmão vinha dormindo, babando, estava trêbado e ficava resmungando coisas sem nexo, ficava falando um nome de um cara, que depois descobri ser o amante dele, meu irmão era veado, mas depois eu falo sobre isso.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “veado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025