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cachorro

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Trêscachorros (sense 1)Threepuppies
Umcachorro da raça Boiadeiro de Berna.Adog of the Berner Sennenhund breed.
Cachorro (sense 6) na Catedral de Notre-Dame de Paris.Modillion on the Notre-Dame de Paris.

Etymology

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Uncertain.[1][2][3] Likelyinherited fromVulgar Latin*cattulus,[3][4] fromLatincatulus, plus the suffix-orro; whence alsoSpanishcachorro.[5][6]

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Noun

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cachorro m (pluralcachorros,femininecachorra,feminine pluralcachorras)

  1. (Portugal)puppy(a young dog)
    Synonyms:cachorrinho,filhote,cria
    • 2019 February 24, “Canil de Manteigas faz criação de cães da raça Serra da Estrela desde 1987 [Kennel in Manteigas raisesSerra da Estrela dogs since 1987]”, inDiário de Notícias[3] (news article), retrieved 15-10-2025:
      O canil da Quinta de São Fernando possui atualmente 14 cães adultos (sendo três machos), umcachorro com dois meses e meio e duas ninhadas de 11 crias, que nasceram no dia 25 de janeiro.
      TheQuinta de São Fernando kennel currently possesses 14 adult dogs (three of them males), onepuppy of two and a half months, and two litters with an issue of 11, who were born January 25.
  2. (Brazil, Madeira)dog (of any age)
    Synonym:cão
    Por favor, cuide docachorro enquanto estivermos fora.
    Please take care of ourdog while we're away.
  3. (Brazil, derogatory) apromiscuous man
    Synonyms:cafajeste,canalha
    • 1972,Waldick Soriano, “Eu Não Sou Cachorro Não”, inEle Também Precisa de Carinho:
      Eu não soucachorro, não / Pra viver tão humilhado / Eu não soucachorro, não / Pra ser tão desprezado.
      No, I am not adog / To live so humiliated / No, I am not adog / To be so spurned
  4. (Brazil, figurative) anunfaithful man
  5. ellipsis ofcachorro-quente:hot dog
  6. (architecture)modillion
    Synonyms:modilhão,corvo
    • 2012 October, Joana Mello,Ricardo Severo: da arqueologia portuguesa à arquitetura brasileira, pages185-186:
      A referência à tradição se dava novamente no detalhe, ou seja, no uso da telha capa e canal, das "bicas levantadas à moda chinesa" no arremate das esquinas, nas amplas beiras com telha invertida, cornija, friso,cachorro e/ou forro de madeira.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
  7. (Brazil, games) the fifth group injogo do bicho
    • Artur de Azevedo,O Último Palpite:
      José, vai jogar dez mil-réis nocachorro. Não creio que dê, porque ainda anteontem deu, mas devo respeitar o último palpite do meu marido. É um palpite sagrado!
      José will bet ten thousand réis on thedog. I don't think it will work, because it worked the day before yesterday, but I must respect my husband's last guess. It's a sacred guess!
  8. (Ceará, derogatory) a police officer
    Synonym:mata-cachorro

Usage notes

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In Brazil, this is the neutral and common term for “dog”. Inhigher-register settings,cão may be utilized instead. The femininecachorra is used often in everyday language but avoided in such settings in favor ofcadela.

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^cachorro”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  2. ^cachorro”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  3. 3.03.1Coromines, Joan;Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cachorro”, inDiccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page728
  4. ^cachorro”, inDicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
  5. ^cachorro”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
  6. ^cachorro”, inDicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025

Spanish

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Likelyinherited fromVulgar Latin*cattulus, fromLatincatŭlus(whelp, puppy), plus the suffix-orro; whence alsoPortuguesecachorro.[1][2][3] If so, adoublet ofcacho(chub).

An alternative link toBasquetxakur,xakur(puppy) has been proposed,[4] but it is often dismissed as speculative.[3][5]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cachorro m (pluralcachorros,femininecachorra,feminine pluralcachorras)

  1. puppy
    Synonym:perrito
  2. cub(the young of certain other animals, generally mammals)
  3. pup(young of foxes, seals or sea lions)

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See also

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References

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  1. ^cachorro”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
  2. ^Roberts, Edward A. (2014),A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation,→ISBN
  3. 3.03.1Coromines, Joan;Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cachorro”, inDiccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[2] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page728
  4. ^Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism. (1996). United States: Cascadilla Press, p. 3
  5. ^Trask, R. L. (2013). The History of Basque. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p. 416

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