forcado
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== Galician ==
=== Etymology ===
Ultimately from Latin furca.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /foɾˈkaðo̝/
=== Noun ===
forcado m (plural forcados)
pitchfork (farm tool)
Synonyms: forca, forcada, forcanza, galla, gallada
=== Adjective ===
forcado (feminine forcada, masculine plural forcados, feminine plural forcadas)
forked, bifurcated
Synonym: gallado
==== Derived terms ====
Forcadas
=== References ===
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “forcado”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forcado”, 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), “forcado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forcado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
From forca + -ado.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: for‧ca‧do
=== Noun ===
forcado m (plural forcados)
pitchfork (farm tool)
Synonyms: forquilha, garfo
(bullfighting) man that in Portuguese bullfighting faces the bull hand-to-hand
Fernando Tordo (1973), “Tourada”, (in Portuguese): “Entram vacas depois dos forcados / Que não pegam nada ― Enter cows after the forcados / That don't grab anything”
=== Participle ===
forcado (feminine forcada, masculine plural forcados, feminine plural forcadas)
past participle of forcar
=== Further reading ===
“forcado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“forcado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026