Jump to content

galápago

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Spanish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calappacu. Compare Catalan calàpet (“toad”), and Portuguese cágado (“turtle, terrapin”).[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ɡaˈlapaɡo/ [ɡaˈla.pa.ɣ̞o]
  • Rhymes: -apaɡo
  • Syllabification: ga‧lá‧pa‧go

Noun

[edit]

galápago m (plural galápagos)

  1. any of several species of turtle
    Synonyms: quelonio, tortuga
  2. (Ecuador) giant tortoise
    Synonym: tortuga gigante

Derived terms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “galápago”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 26

Further reading

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=galápago&oldid=82676512"