Hello! Our new word of the day is “dorádo”, which means ‘dolphin’. When used in discussions of astronomy “dorádo” also means a constellation found in the Southern Hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor, containing a great portion of the large Magellanic Cloud.

 The word is a noun and is spelled d – o – r – a – d – o. The accent is on the ‘a’ in the second syllable. The word is derived from the Late Latin word ‘deaurtus’ for gilding.

 As an adjective it means ‘golden’, or ‘gilding’. “Dorár is the transitive verb for ‘to gild’.

 So, to recap, the word for today was “dorádo”, which means ‘dolphin’. It can also mean a constellation found in the Southern Hemisphere.

Well, tune in tomorrow when our new Spanish word of the day will be “plateádo”.