cerda

From Late Latin setula, diminutive of Latin sēta, saeta (“thick hair”). Compare Spanish cerda, Italian setola (“bristle”).

• Hyphenation: cer‧da

cerda f (plural cerdas)

1. bristle (stiff or coarse hair)

• “cerda”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cerda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• ceda

Disputed. Perhaps from Late Latin setula, diminutive of Latin sēta, saeta (“thick hair”) (compare Italian setola (“bristle”)), but the initial and the liquid would be irregular. Anders proposes a source in Vulgar Latin cirra (“lock, tuft of hair”), from Latin cirrus, influenced by saeta.^[1] Also compare Basque zerri (“pig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾda/ [ˈθeɾ.ð̞a] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾda/ [ˈseɾ.ð̞a] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾda
• Syllabification: cer‧da

cerda f (plural cerdas, masculine cerdo, masculine plural cerdos)

1. sow (female pig)
2. (colloquial, figurative) pig, slob (woman)
3. (derogatory) bitch, slut
   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 12:

     A Pedro no le mola nada hablar conmigo de su cerda. Está muy enamorado y no le gusta que me ría de él.

     Pedro doesn't like talking to me 'bout his bitch. He's very much in love and doesn't like me laughin' at him.

cerda f (plural cerdas)

1. bristle (stiff or coarse hair)

cerda

1. feminine singular of cerdo

• “cerdo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025