tarugada

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish tarugo

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Latin -āta

Spanish -ada

Spanish tarugada

From tarugo + -ada.

Noun

tarugada f (plural tarugadas)

1. (Mexico) barbarity

Further reading

• “tarugada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025