cajado
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cayado, from Latin caia (“cudgel”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʒa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʒa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈʒa.du/ [kɐˈʒa.ðu]
- Hyphenation: ca‧ja‧do
Noun
cajado m (plural cajados)
- staff (long, straight stick)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cajado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “cajado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026