côvado

From Old Galician-Portuguese côbedo,^[1] from Latin cubitum (“cubit”), possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Compare the likely inherited doublet coto and the later borrowing cúbito. Cognate with Spanish codo and possibly coto, Galician cóbado, and Catalan colze and colzo. Cf. also cotovelo.

• Hyphenation: cô‧va‧do

côvado m (plural côvados)

1. (historical, measure) covado, Portuguese cubit, a traditional unit of length equal to about 0.6 meters and roughly approximating the length of a forearm and hand

   Synonym: cúbito

The notional côvado (côvado craveiro) of 24 polegadas was previously lengthened by 8 linhas (³⁄₄ polegada) for the long côvado (côvado avantejado) in some commercial contexts.

• côvado craveiro, côvado crav., côvado avantejado, côvado avant.

• dedo (¹⁄₃₆ côvado), polegada (¹⁄₂₄ côvado), palmo (¹⁄₃ côvado), pé (¹⁄₂ côvado), vara (1+²⁄₃ côvados), passo (2+¹⁄₂ côvados), toesa (3 côvados), braça (3+¹⁄₃ côvados)