Noun: cóbado
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cóbado |
| Plural m | cóbados |
Sample Sentences
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Et tam grande foy a morteydade que en aquel dia fez enos mouros que lli corria o sangui (o sangui) pelos couedos ajuso (And the mortality he caused that day on the Moors was such that blood was running from his elbows down) [c. 1300, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 568:]
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Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo (Item, the aforementioned Gonzalo Fernandez and Gonzalo Ferreiro committed themselves to bring, for the construction of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beams of oak, each one at least twenty-seven cubits long) [1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:]
Nouns inflected like cóbado
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese covedo, attested in the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”). Cognate with Portuguese côvado and coto, Spanish codo and possibly coto, and Catalan colze and colzo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
covedo', Latin Nouns '
cubitum', Portuguese Nouns '
côvado', Spanish Nouns '
codo', Catalan Nouns '
colze'.
Verbs referencing "cóbado"
Spanish Nouns
codo, Portuguese Nouns
coto, Portuguese Nouns
côvado.
Translations