cerrado

See also: Cerrado

English

Extent of cerrado.

Typical cerrado landscape.

Alternative forms

• Cerrado

Etymology

From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”).

Noun

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

1. (biogeography, uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
2. (biogeography, countable, often capitalized) A region with this biome.
   • 1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune‎^[1]:

     The biggest breakthrough on the horizon is coming on Latin America's vast cerrado, the seemingly endless grassy plains centered in Brazil. The cerrado covers more than 200 million hectares (500 million acres)—more than all the cultivated land that feeds India's more than 800 million people.

Further reading

• cerrado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• corrade

Galician

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

Portuguese

Etymology

cerrar +‎ -ado

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.du/ [seˈha.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.du/ [seˈha.du]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.du/ [seˈχa.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈʁa.do/ [seˈha.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈʁa.du/ [sɨˈʁa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: cer‧ra‧do
• Homophone: serrado

Adjective

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. closed, shut
2. thick, dense

Noun

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

1. cerrado (tropical savanna biome)
2. a region with this biome
3. a biome similar to it, such as scrub

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

Further reading

• “cerrado”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “cerrado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “cerrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cerrado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “cerrado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “cerrado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• cerrado on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of cerrar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈrado/ [θeˈra.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈrado/ [seˈra.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ce‧rra‧do
• Homophone: (Latin America) serrado

Adjective

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. shut, closed

   El baúl está cerrado.

   The trunk is shut.

   Gracias por mantener la boca cerrada.

   Thanks for keeping your mouth shut.

2. closed off (personality trait)

Derived terms

• a puerta cerrada
• a puertas cerradas
• circuito cerrado
• en boca cerrada no entran moscas
• libro cerrado (“closed book”) (idiomatic)
• noche cerrada

 

Noun

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

1. Synonym of cercado

Participle

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

Further reading

• “cerrado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28