carbonado

carbonado · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ker-“to burn”
2. Latin · derived fromcarbō“coal; charcoal”
3. Italian · derived fromcarbonata“coal pile; stew of beef in red wine”
4. Spanish · derived fromcarbonada“carbonized”
5. English todaycarbonado

The noun is derived from Spanish carbonada (“carbonized”) (from carbonar (“to carbonize”)) + -ado (suffix forming past participles of regular verbs ending in -ar). Carbonada appears to have been modelled after Italian carbonata (“coal pile; stew of beef in red wine”), from carbone (“coal; charcoal”) (from Latin carbō (“coal; charcoal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”)) + -ata. The verb is derived from the noun.

carbonado · noun²

1. Latin · derived fromcarbō“coal; charcoal”
2. French · derived fromcarbone“carbon”
3. Portuguese · borrowed fromcarbonado“carbonized”
4. English todaycarbonado

Borrowed from Portuguese carbonado (“carbonized”), probably from carbono (“carbon”) (currently only attested later than carbonado) + -ado (suffix forming adjectives from nouns meaning ‘something or someone who has suffered the action’). Carbono is borrowed from French carbone (“carbon”), from Latin carbō (“coal; charcoal”); for further derivation, see etymology 1.

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