badalo

See also: badało

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese badalo (“bell-clapper”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), irregularly from Vulgar Latin *bataclum < *ba(t)tuaculum, from Latin battuō, battuere (“I beat, I clap”). Cognate with Portuguese badalo, Spanish badajo, Catalan batall, French batail, Italian batacchio.

Alternative forms

• badal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈða.lo̝/

Noun

badalo m (plural badalos)

1. clapper (of a bell)

Derived terms

• badalada
• badalar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “badalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “badalo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “badalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “badalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “badalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

badalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of badalar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈda.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈda.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈda.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈda.lu/ [bɐˈða.lu]

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ba‧da‧lo

Etymology 1

badalo (1)

From Old Galician-Portuguese badalo (“bell-clapper”), from Vulgar Latin *batāclum, from contraction of *ba(t)tuāculum, from Latin battuere (“to beat, to clap”). Cognate with Galician badal, Spanish badajo, Catalan batall, French batail, Italian batacchio.

Noun

badalo m (plural badalos)

1. clapper (of a bell)
2. (Portugal, informal, by extension) tongue (human)
3. (slang) penis

Derived terms

• badalar

Etymology 2

Verb

badalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of badalar