Dorado

Meaning

1. A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish. It lies between the constellations Pictor and Reticulum, and is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
2. A barangay of Pakil, Laguna, Philippines.

Synonyms

Swordfish

Goldfish

Translations

Dorade

Schwertfisch

Dorado

Dorado

Dorado

Dorado

Goudvis

Δοράς

Orada

Kılıçbalığı

Dorado

Daurada

Pesce Dorato

Dourado

Etymology

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Italian dorato (“gilded, golden”), ultimately from Latin deaurātus, the past participle of deaurō (“to gild”).