pardo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pardao (an obsolete spelling of pardau), from Sanskrit प्रतापः (pratāpaḥ), which was written on the coins.
Noun
pardo (plural pardos or pardoes)
- (historical) A former money of account in Goa, India.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pardo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese pardo, from Latin pardus.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek παρδός (pardós).
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese pardo, from Latin pardus.
Noun
pardo m (plural pardos, feminine parda, feminine plural pardas)
- a multiracial person
- Pardo é um termo oficial no Brasil formalmente utilizado para descrever alguém de origem multirracial.
- Pardo is an official term used formally in Brazil to describe someone of multiracial origins.
- Pardo é um termo oficial no Brasil formalmente utilizado para descrever alguém de origem multirracial.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpardo/, [ˈparðo]
Further reading
- “pardo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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