cayado

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *caiātus, from Late Latin caia (“staff”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝado/ [kaˈʝa.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʝado/ [kaˈʝa.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃado/ [kaˈʃa.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒado/ [kaˈʒa.ð̞o]

• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ca‧ya‧do
• Homophone: callado

Noun

cayado m (plural cayados)

1. staff, crook
   • 1922, Federico García Lorca, Primeras Canciones, Cuatro Baladas Amarillas, I:

     Ni ovejas blancas ni perro
     ni cayado, ni amor tienes.

     You have neither white sheep nor a dog
     nor crook nor love.

Derived terms

• cayado de la aorta

 

Further reading

• “cayado”, 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