salgado

From Old Galician-Portuguese salgado, from Vulgar Latin *salicare (“to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: sal‧ga‧do

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. past participle of salgar

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. salty
2. salted

From Old Galician-Portuguese salgado, from Vulgar Latin *salicāre (“to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

• Rhymes: -adu
• Homophone: Salgado
• Hyphenation: sal‧ga‧do

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. salty
   1. tasting of salt
   2. salted (containing salt)
   3. preserved or treated with salt

      Synonym: ensalmourado

   4. savory; nonsweet

      Antonym: doce

   5. (figurative, of language) coarse, provocative, earthy

      Synonym: malicioso

2. (colloquial) very expensive

   Synonym: caríssimo

   Antonyms: barato, em conta

   preço salgado

   high price

salgados

salgado m (plural salgados)

1. any snack, usually fried, that takes salt

   Synonym: salgadinho

   Antonym: doce

salgado (feminine salgada, masculine plural salgados, feminine plural salgadas)

1. past participle of salgar

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