garrido

From Old Galician-Portuguese garrido (“cheerful”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from garrir.

• IPA^(key): [ɡaˈriðʊ]

garrido m (feminine singular garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. lush, fresh-looking; healthy; strong

   Boa roupa e boa vida, fan á vella garrida. (proverb) ― Good clothes and good life make the old woman healthy (and fresh looking).

   • c1350, K. M. Parker. (ed.) (1975), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 120:

     forõ moy ledos todos por que era el [moy] bẽ garrido

     all of them were very happy, because he was well healed

   • 1355, Alfonso Álvarez Villasandino:

     por fogir de fealdade, | e fui ver con omildade | mui garrida catadura.

     for fleeing ugliness, | and I went see with humbleness | very beauty countenance.

   Synonym: louzán

2. blonde; auburn
3. (archaic) cheerful; frivolous; brainless

garrido m (plural garridos)

1. a generic precious item

• garrir

• “garrido” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “garrid” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “garrido” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “garrido” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “garrido” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From garrir.

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. garish, showy, brash

   Synonym: vistoso

2. elegant

   Synonym: elegante

3. bright, cheerful

   Synonyms: alegre, animado

   • 1969, Jorge Ben Jor (lyrics and music), “Take It Easy My Brother Charles”:

     Rosa é a flor da simpatia / É a flor escolhida no dia / Do primeiro encontro do nosso dia / Com a vida querida / Com a vida mais garrida

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• “garrido” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

Past participle of Old Spanish garrir (“to chat, prattle”), from Latin garrīre, present infinitive of garrio (“to chatter”).

garrido (feminine garrida, masculine plural garridos, feminine plural garridas)

1. hefty; strong; strong-looking
2. (of a woman) good-looking; beauteous
3. elegant; gentlemanly

• → Catalan: garrit

• “garrido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014