caldo

Etymology

13th century. From Latin caldus, from calidus (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaldo̝/

Noun

caldo m (plural caldos)

1. Caldo galego
2. broth
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: IEOPF, page 534:

     Et comiã os coiros das vacas et das bestas et beuiã o caldo delas

     And they ate the leathers of the cows and the animals and drank the broth of [boiling] them

   • 1327, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 79:

     e proueam á dita albergaría de leytos e de feltros et mantas e de cubertas e manteñan y hun ome e hua moller que aguarde a roupa e faça os leytos aos doentes e os caldos quando lles conpryr

     and they should provide that hospital with beds and felts and blankets and covers, and they should keep there a man and a woman who should guard the clothes and make the beds of the sick and the broths whenever they would need it

3. clear broth

References

• “caldo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “caldo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “caldo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caldo” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “caldo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Latin caldus, syncopated form of calidus. Compare the borrowed doublet calido.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaldo]

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Adjective

caldo (feminine singular calda, masculine plural caldi, feminine plural calde)

1. warm, hot

Noun

caldo m (plural caldi)

1. heat

   Ho caldo ― I am hot

2. fervour, ardour

Adjective

caldō

1. dative masculine singular of caldus
2. dative neuter singular of caldus
3. ablative masculine singular of caldus
4. ablative neuter plural of caldus

Etymology

From Old Portuguese caldo, from Latin caldus, from calidus (“warm, hot”). Compare the borrowed doublet cálido.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɫ.du/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.du/
• Hyphenation: cal‧do
• Rhymes: -awdu

Noun

caldo m (plural caldos)

1. broth, stock

   caldo de carne ― meat broth, beef stock

   caldo de galinha ― chicken stock

2. juice

Etymology

From Latin caldus, from calidus (“warm”). Compare the borrowed doublet cálido.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaldo/, [ˈkal̪d̪o]

Noun

caldo m (plural caldos)

1. a clear soup, broth, bouillon
2. (soup) stock
3. swill
4. sludge

Further reading

• “caldo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.