badalo

• badal

From Old Galician and Old 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.

• IPA^(key): /baˈða.lo̝/

badalo m (plural badalos)

1. clapper (of a bell)

• badalada
• badalar

• “badalo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “badalo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “badalo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “badalo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “badalo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈða.lu/
• Hyphenation: ba‧da‧lo

badalo m (plural badalos)

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

• badalar