cadillo

Unclear. Attested since the 15th century; perhaps from Latin *catenicullum, diminutive of catēna (“chain”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈðiʎo̝/

cadillo m (plural cadillos)

1. thread used to tie the umbilical cord
2. (in the plural, weaving) group of twelve or twenty-four threads that are warped
3. (archaic) skein
   • 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:

     Iten, preçaron duas toallas e hua azarella e hua sauaa e dous cadillos e hun saquo e hua manta vella e hua azarella em oytenta maravedis

     Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two skeins and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis

4. umbilical cord

• cadilleira
• encadillar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cadillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cadil”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cadillo”, 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), “cadillo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cadillo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin catellus.

• Syllabification: ca‧di‧llo

cadillo m (plural cadillos)

1. any of certain species of plants
   1. greater burdock (Arctium lappa)
   2. beggarticks (Bidens pilosa)
   3. carrot bur parsley (Caucalis platycarpos)
   4. wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
   5. catchweed (Galium aparine)
   6. corn buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis)
   7. southern sandbur (Cenchrus echinatus)
   8. puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris)
   9. broadleaf false carrot (Turgenia latifolia)
2. wart

• “cadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16