caralho
Galician[edit]
Noun[edit]
caralho m (plural caralhos, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of carallo
Interjection[edit]
caralho
- reintegrationist spelling of carallo
References[edit]
- “caralho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The etymology is uncertain, but the most plausible source on the basis of both semantics and historical phonology appears to be unattested Vulgar Latin *c(h)araculum, which would have been a Latinized diminutive of Ancient Greek χάραξ (khárax, “stick”).
Another possibility is Late Latin cassus or its diminutive, carassus (“empty”), eventually used to describe a crow's nest on a ship.
Certain cognates include Spanish carajo, Galician carallo and Catalan carall. Attempts to attribute Italian same-meaning cazzo to the same etymon fail on phonological grounds, as the /r/ of carajo (or its absence in cazzo) remains unexplained, and no Latin phonological sequence develops as both /x/ in Spanish and /tts/ in Italian.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
caralho m (plural caralhos)
- (vulgar) penis; dick; cock
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
- (vulgar) shit; crap; worthless stuff or thing
Interjection[edit]
caralho!
- (colloquial, vulgar) fuck!
Derived terms[edit]
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician reintegrationist forms
- Galician interjections
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎu/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese vulgarities
- Portuguese interjections
- Portuguese colloquialisms