Where does “macaco-barrigudo” come from?

macaco-barrigudo (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese macaco, from English Madagascar, from Middle French Madagascar, from English Mogadishu, from Arabic مَقَدِيشُو, from Persian [[شاه]] [[مقعد]].

macaco-barrigudo (Portuguese): common woolly monkey

Definitions

  1. common woolly monkey

Ancestry of “macaco-barrigudo”, step by step

macaco-barrigudo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Portuguese macaco

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesemacacomonkey, ape; mechanical jack; black; negro
2EnglishMadagascarA resident of Madagascar
3Middle FrenchMadagascar
4EnglishMogadishuThe government of Somalia
5Arabicمَقَدِيشُو
6Persian[[شاه]] [[مقعد]]

via Portuguese barrigudo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesebarrigudopotbellied; paunchy
2Portuguese-udoA suffix appended to nouns of parts of the body...
3Latin-utus
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Persian [[شاه]] [[مقعد]]Every word from Arabic مَقَدِيشُوEvery word from English Mogadishu
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