"galego" meaning in Portuguese

See galego in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɡaˈle.ɡu/ [Brazil], /ɡaˈle.ɡu/ [Brazil], /ɡaˈle.ɡo/ [Southern-Brazil], /ɡɐˈle.ɡu/ [Portugal], [ɡɐˈle.ɣu] [Portugal] Forms: galega [feminine], galegos [masculine, plural], galegas [feminine, plural]
Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus, from Gallaecia. Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|galego}} Old Galician-Portuguese galego, {{inh|pt|la|Gallaecus}} Latin Gallaecus, {{cog|gl|galego}} Galician galego, {{cog|es|gallego}} Spanish gallego Head templates: {{pt-adj|hascomp=no}} galego (feminine galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas, not comparable)
  1. Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language) Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-adj-cLUxEnMG
  2. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde Tags: Brazil, dialectal, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-adj-eqT1w5Y0 Categories (other): Brazilian Portuguese

Noun

IPA: /ɡaˈle.ɡu/ [Brazil], /ɡaˈle.ɡu/ [Brazil], /ɡaˈle.ɡo/ [Southern-Brazil], /ɡɐˈle.ɡu/ [Portugal], [ɡɐˈle.ɣu] [Portugal] Forms: galegos [plural], galega [feminine], galegas [feminine, plural]
Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus, from Gallaecia. Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|galego}} Old Galician-Portuguese galego, {{inh|pt|la|Gallaecus}} Latin Gallaecus, {{cog|gl|galego}} Galician galego, {{cog|es|gallego}} Spanish gallego Head templates: {{pt-noun|m|f=+}} galego m (plural galegos, feminine galega, feminine plural galegas)
  1. Galician person Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-noun-65QlZgqJ
  2. (uncountable) Galician language Tags: masculine, uncountable Categories (topical): Languages
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-noun-vYgz8YJl Disambiguation of Languages: 19 7 10 30 2 6 11 16
  3. (Alentejo, Algarve, colloquial) someone from Northern Portugal Tags: colloquial, masculine
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-noun-QoP1BTcK Categories (other): Alentejano Portuguese, Algarvian Portuguese
  4. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde (a person with fair hair) Tags: Brazil, dialectal, masculine
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-noun-TfrsyZMo Categories (other): Brazilian Portuguese
  5. (Brazil, dated) a European immigrant to Brazil, more specifically, a Portuguese or Spanish immigrant Tags: Brazil, dated, masculine
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-noun-IQXec6SJ Categories (other): Brazilian Portuguese
  6. (Brazil, derogatory) a Portuguese of poor education Tags: Brazil, derogatory, masculine Categories (topical): Demonyms
    Sense id: en-galego-pt-noun-hSDMenM9 Disambiguation of Demonyms: 12 15 9 12 3 13 15 21 Categories (other): Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 8 11 6 14 4 13 19 25

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for galego meaning in Portuguese (5.7kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.