cerda
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin setula, diminutive of Latin sēta, saeta (“thick hair”). Compare Spanish cerda, Italian setola (“bristle”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: cer‧da
Noun
editcerda f (plural cerdas)
- bristle (stiff or coarse hair)
Spanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editDisputed. 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”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾda/ [ˈθeɾ.ð̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈseɾda/ [ˈseɾ.ð̞a]
- Rhymes: -eɾda
- Syllabification: cer‧da
Noun
editcerda f (plural cerdas, masculine cerdo, masculine plural cerdos)
- sow (female pig)
- bristle (stiff or coarse hair)
- (colloquial, figurative) pig, slob (woman)
- (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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
editAdjective
editcerda
Further reading
edit- “cerdo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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