cruzado

From Portuguese cruzado. Doublet of cruciate.

cruzado (plural cruzados or cruzadoes)

1. The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
2. An old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries.
3. An old monetary unit of Castile in the 14th century.

• cruzeiro
• real

From Old Galician-Portuguese cruzado, from cruz (“cross”) +‎ -ado. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish cruzado.

• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: cru‧za‧do

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. crossed
2. crossbred

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

1. crusader
2. cruzado (old monetary unit of Castile, Portugal, Brazil)
   • 1371, A. López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 381:

     ouvo en estas viñas triinta e seys çestos de huvas e de conposta. Et que custara o carreto tres barbudas cada çesto, que montaron çento e oyto barbudas, que montaron en crusados mill e seysçentos e viinte crusados.

     there were in this vineyard thirty-six baskets of grapes and compote. And that the carriage costed three barbudas each basket, amounting to a hundred and eight barbudas, which amounted in cruzados to one thousand and six hundred and twenty cruzados.

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cruzado”, 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), “cruzado”, 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), “cruzado”, 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), “cruzado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cruzado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “cruzado”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

cruzado m (definite singular cruzadoen, indefinite plural cruzado or cruzados, definite plural cruzadoene)

1. (historical, numismatics) cruzado

3=cruzado
4=cruzadoane
ip2=cruzados

cruzado m (plural cruzadoen)

1. (historical, numismatics) cruzado

• Hyphenation: cru‧za‧do

From cruz (“cross”) +‎ -ado.

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

1. cruzado (old monetary unit of Brazil)
2. cruzado (old monetary unit of Portugal)
3. crusader

Past participle of cruzar.

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. crossed

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. past participle of cruzar

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

• IPA^(key): /kɾuˈθado/ [kɾuˈθa.ð̞o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /kɾuˈsado/ [kɾuˈsa.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: cru‧za‧do

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. crossed

cruzado m (plural cruzados)

1. crusader

cruzado (feminine cruzada, masculine plural cruzados, feminine plural cruzadas)

1. past participle of cruzar

• “cruzado”, 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