badalo

• IPA^(key): /baˈdalo/ [baˈð̞a.lʊ]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: ba‧da‧lo

From Old Galician-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.

• badal

badalo m (plural badalos)

1. clapper (of a bell)

• badalada
• badalar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “badalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “badalo”, 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), “badalo”, 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), “badalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “badalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “badalo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “badalo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

badalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of badalar

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ba‧da‧lo

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

badalo m (plural badalos)

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

• badalar

badalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of badalar