morcego

• murcego, muricego

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese murcego, from Vulgar Latin *mūris caecus (“blind mouse”). Compare Portuguese morcego, Spanish murciélago.

• Hyphenation: mor‧ce‧go

morcego m (plural morcegos)

1. bat (any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera)

   Synonym: quiróptero

• “morcego”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morcego”, 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), “morcego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “morcego”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese murcego, from Vulgar Latin *mūris caecus, by surface analysis, mure (“mouse”) +‎ cego (“blind”). Compare Galician morcego, Spanish murciélago.

• morcêgo (pre-reform spelling)

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /mohˈse.ɡu/
• Rhymes: -eɡu
• Hyphenation: mor‧ce‧go

morcego m (plural morcegos, feminine (uncommon) morcega, feminine plural (uncommon) morcegas)

1. bat (any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera)

   Synonym: quiróptero

2. (figurative, colloquial) night person

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /mohˈsɛ.ɡu/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: mor‧ce‧go

morcego

1. first-person singular present indicative of morcegar