Transcript of “Candado Facial Hair”
The Spanish word for padlock is candado, and it comes from the Latin word catenatus, which means chained, and it’s a relative of the English word concatenation, which is one of my favorite words. It means a chain of events or a chain of things, a concatenation.
So the Spanish word for padlock is candado, but in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, it has another meaning. The word candado means a goatee. It’s like the mustache over your lip and under the hair.
Oh, so they’re chained together? Well, it looks like a padlock.
Oh, it does. It totally does. That’s right. Oh, it’s like the loop of the lock and then the square bulk part below with the mechanism.
Oh.
My favorite term for that I heard in English, though, is pudding ring.
Pudding ring. It looks like you’ve been eating pudding out of a pudding container, a round pudding container, and you put it up to your mouth so you could get all of it out.
It’s like you left a chocolate ring of pudding around your mouth.
Oh, that’s pretty funny.
Yeah, in Spanish it’s often called a circular or espanola, you know, circular or in the Spanish style. But I do like the padlock pudding ring.
Oh, that’s lovely. Well, we’ve got a lot of multilingual listeners to the show, and we love to hear how you phrase things in your languages. Let us know, words@waywordradio.org.
