different between colorado vs texas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish colorado

Pronunciation

Noun

colorado (plural colorados)

1. A cigar of medium color and strength.
2. A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.

Coordinate terms

(cigar): claro, colorado claro, colorado maduro, double claro, double maduro, maduro, oscuro

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese colorado, from colorar (“to color”). Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish colorado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo??aðo?/

Adjective

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. red, reddish

   Synonyms: roxo, rubio, vermello

2. having color
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 667:

     Et, desque o ouuerõ sacado, estaua o corpo tã yrto que se nõ dobraua a nenh?u cabo, et sua carne muy l?pa et muy colorado, que semellaua viuo

     And, as soon as they took him out, the body was so stiff that it did not bend to any extent, and his flesh was very clean and colorful, to the point that he seemed alive

References

• “colorado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “colorad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “colorado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “colorado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “colorado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Adjective

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas, comparable)

1. (Brazil) colored, red

   Synonym: colorido

2. (Brazil, soccer) pertaining to, or related to Sport Club Internacional

Noun

colorado m (plural colorados, feminine colorada, feminine plural coloradas)

1. (Brazil, soccer) a player or supporter of Sport Club Internacional sports team

Spanish

Etymology

From color +? -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo??ado/, [ko.lo??a.ð?o]

Adjective

colorado (feminine colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. colored
2. red

   Synonym: rojo

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

colorado m (feminine singular colorada, masculine plural colorados, feminine plural coloradas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of colorar.

English

Etymology

From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k.s?s/
• Rhymes: -?ks?s
• Hyphenation: tex?as

Noun

texas (plural texases)

1. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
   • 1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)

     She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.

Anagrams

• taxes

Ido

Verb

texas

1. present of texar

Latin

Verb

tex?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of tex?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English Texas.

Noun

texas

1. (slang) crazy, wild.
   • 2017, Jean-Louis Adorsen, Høstmørke, adorsen (e-publ.), ?ISBN.

Usage notes

Often used in the phrase det var helt texas, meaning "it was totally/absolutely/completely crazy/wild".

References

• “texas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “texas” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English Texas.

Noun

texas

1. (slang) crazy, wild.

References

• “texas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.