gafo

From Old Galician-Portuguese gafo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Either from gafa (“hook”), from Old Occitan gafar (“to grab”); or from Arabic.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡafo̝/

gafo m (plural gafos, feminine gafa, feminine plural gafas)

1. leper; any person with a deformity

   Synonyms: leproso, malato

2. hex
3. growl of a cat

gafo (feminine gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)

1. leprous

   Synonym: leproso

2. molest, gross

• gafar
• gafaría
• gafento
• gafeño
• gafume

• gafa

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “gafo”, 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), “gaf”, 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), “gafo”, 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), “gafo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

gafo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gafar

Uncertain.

gafo (feminine singular gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)

1. leprous
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 78r:

     Eſte herodes Murio mala muerte deuẏno gafo de pues por la grãt pudor q̃ ſalẏo del ⁊ nõ lo podie ſofrir. el Miſmo ſe mato cõ .j. guchiello.

     [Este Herodes murió mala muerte. Devino gafo, de pues, por la grant pudor que salió d'él e non lo podíe sofrir, el mismo se mató con un guchiello.]

     This Herod died a bad death. He became leprous, [and] then, because of the great shame which he displayed and could not bear, he killed himself with a knife.

• leproso

• Spanish: gafo

Inherited from Old Spanish gafo, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡafo/ [ˈɡa.fo]
• Rhymes: -afo
• Syllabification: ga‧fo

gafo (feminine gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)

1. leprous
2. stupid

gafo m (plural gafos, feminine gafa, feminine plural gafas)

1. leper
2. dimwit

gafo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gafar

• “gafo”, in Diccionario 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