alarido

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. Perhaps onomatopoeic, related to alalá,^[1] or either from Arabic عَرِيض (ʕarīḍ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alaˈɾiðʊ]

Noun

alarido m (plural alaridos)

1. yell
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 861:

     com̃o estauam sen sospeyta, chegarõ aos madeyros, et ante que se os cristãos huuyassem a perceber nẽ chegar y, ouuerõ elles atado muy fortes sogas a hũu madeyro et arrincarõno; et foronse asi cõ el a muy gran pressa, dando uozes et allaridos.

     as they [the Christians] were unaware, they [the Moors] arrived to the ships, and before the Christians noticed or came by, they had tied strong ropes to a ship and pulled it out; and they went away hastily with it, shouting and yelling

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:

     Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr

     And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

References

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

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Spanish alarido.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧la‧ri‧do

Noun

alarido m (plural alaridos)

1. clamor, shriek

   Synonyms: algazarra, gritaria

   • 1768, Cláudio Manuel da Costa, “Já me enfado de ouvir este alarido”, in Obras Poéticas de Glauceste Satúrnio:

     Já me enfado de ouvir este alarido, / Com que se engana o mundo em seu cuidado; / Quero ver entre as peles, e o cajado, / Se melhora a fortuna de partido.

     I am already tired of hearing this clamor, / With which the world deceives itself in its care; / I want to see between the skins, and the staff, / If the fortune of the party improves.

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Portuguese alarido.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alaˈɾido/ [a.laˈɾi.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: a‧la‧ri‧do

Noun

alarido m (plural alaridos)

1. shriek, shout

   Synonym: clamor

Further reading

• “alarido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10