bacalao
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish bacalao.
Noun
editbacalao (uncountable)
Spanish
editAlternative forms
edit- bacallao
- bacalado (nonstandard, hypercorrection)
Etymology
editFrom Dutch bakaliaw, Old Dutch bakeljauw, kabeljauw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Latin baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks. Or, possibly borrowed or influenced by Basque bakailao, which could be related to the Dutch word.
Cognate with Italian baccalà, Portuguese bacalhau, Galician bacallau, Catalan bacallà.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbacalao m (plural bacalaos)
- cod
- dried and salted cod
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
edit- “bacalao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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