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candado

Meaning

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candar

  1. (Asturias, dialectal) to lock
  2. (Asturias, dialectal, reflexive) (of a river, stream, or natural or artificial body of water) to freeze, freeze over.

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
can‧da‧do
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kanˈdado/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish cadnado (with metathesis of /dn/), from Late Latin catēnātum, derived from Latin catēna (“chain”).

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