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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ba•ca•lao (bä′kə lou′, bak′ə-; Sp. bä′kä lä′ô),USA pronunciation n., pl. -laos (-louz′; Sp. -lä′ôs).USA pronunciation Spanish or Spanish-American Cookery.- Foodcodfish, esp. when dried and salted.
- a dish of this, cooked with a tomato sauce, olives, garlic, etc.
- Gascon, the presumed source of Old French cabellau, cabillau (French cabillaud) fresh codfish, equivalent. to Gascon cabilh, cabelh (diminutive of cap head; see chief) + a suffix, alluding to the fish's prominent head; though Medieval Latin (Flanders) cabellauwus, the earliest attestation of the form (compare Middle Dutch cab(b)eliau, Dutch kabeljauw) suggests a non-Romance, north, northern European origin
- Basque bakaiļao, perh., by metathesis,
- Spanish bacal(l)ao, probably
- 1545–55
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