# fiado
## Galician
### Etymology 1

From fiar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiˈaðo̝/

#### Noun

fiado m (plural fiados)
* yarn
** 1281, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 133:
    Mando o fiado daſ eſtopaſ que teño debaado a Maria Suarez τ a Tereyga τ Maria Martinz.
       I give the yarn of tow I have reeled to María Suarez and Tereixa and María Martís
** 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçesItem, Xoán Cortido, neighbor of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks

##### Related terms

* fiar
* fío

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

fiado (feminine fiada, masculine plural fiados, feminine plural fiadas)
* past participle of fiar

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fiˈa.du/ [fɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfja.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /fiˈa.du/ [fɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfja.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /fiˈa.do/ [fɪˈa.do], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfja.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfja.du/ [ˈfja.ðu]

### Adjective

fiado (feminine fiada, masculine plural fiados, feminine plural fiadas)
* confiding
* on credit, on the cuff

### Adverb

fiado
* on credit, on the cuff
    Eles não vendem fiado. ― They don't sell on credit.

#### Derived terms

* conversa fiada

### Participle

fiado (feminine fiada, masculine plural fiados, feminine plural fiadas)
* past participle of fiar

### Further reading

* “fiado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfjado/ [ˈfja.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -ado
* Syllabification: fia‧do

### Noun

fiado m (uncountable)
* credit (receiving goods and services without paying)

### Participle

fiado (feminine fiada, masculine plural fiados, feminine plural fiadas)
* past participle of fiar

### Further reading

* “fiado”, 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