pecado

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pecado (“sin”), from Latin peccātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [peˈkaðʊ]

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. sin
2. swear word

References

• “pecado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pecado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pecado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pecado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pecado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Participle

pecado (feminine pecada, masculine plural pecados, feminine plural pecadas)

1. past participle of pecar

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin peccātum (“sin; error”), from peccō (“I sin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ˈka.d̪o/

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. (religion) sin
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 3 (facsimile):

     Por ela nos perdõou / deus o pecado Dadam. / da maçãa que goſtou. per / que ſoffreu muit affan.

     By her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.

Descendants

• Galician: pecado
• Portuguese: pecado

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• peccado (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pecado (“sin”), from Latin peccātum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈka.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈka.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈka.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨˈka.du/ [pɨˈka.ðu]

• Hyphenation: pe‧ca‧do

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. sin

Related terms

• pecadilho
• pecadoraço
• pecar

 

Descendants

• → Kadiwéu: pecaado
• → Sranan Tongo: pikadu

Participle

pecado (feminine pecada, masculine plural pecados, feminine plural pecadas)

1. past participle of pecar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish pecado, from Latin peccātum, from peccō (“to sin, offend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈkado/ [peˈka.ð̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pe‧ca‧do

Noun

pecado m (plural pecados)

1. sin

Derived terms

• de pecado
• pecadillo
• pecado capital
• pecado de bestialidad
• pecado de comisión
• pecado de omisión
• pecado mortal
• pecado original
• simpecado

 

Related terms

• pecador
• pecar

 

Participle

pecado (feminine pecada, masculine plural pecados, feminine plural pecadas)

1. past participle of pecar

Further reading

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