catadura

From Old Galician-Portuguese catadura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): catar (“to look”) +‎ -dura.

• IPA^(key): /kataˈðuɾa̝/

catadura f (plural cataduras)

1. face, countenance, looks, appearance; glance, gaze
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:

     Rey Calrros auia os cabelos brũus et a façe uermella, et avia o corpo moy bẽ feicto et de boo estado, et a catadura braua

     King Charles had brown hair and a reddish face, and his body was very well formed and in good shape, and his looks was fierce

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

From catar +‎ -dura.

• IPA^(key): /kataˈduɾa/ [ka.t̪aˈð̞u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧ta‧du‧ra

catadura f (plural cataduras)

1. tasting

   catadura de vinos ― wine tasting

2. appearance, look

   mala catadura ― bad looking

• “catadura”, 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