cardo
Spanish, noun
cardo is spelled C-A-R-D-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 42,860th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cardo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “thistle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cardar. With an accent, cardó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cardar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Nombre común dado a múltiples especies de plantas en las familias de las asteráceas, las apiáceas y las…”.
What does cardo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethistle
- 2
masculinecardoon (plant)
- 3
Spainmasculineprickly customer
- 4
Spainmasculinebutt ugly person
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cardar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cardar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nombre común dado a múltiples especies de plantas en las familias de las asteráceas, las apiáceas y las dipsacáceas, caracterizadas por un tallo herbáceo vertical de gran porte, tachonado de espinas, e inflorescencias terminales en forma de densos capítulos. Muchas especies son comestibles. 2. (Cynara cardunculus) Cardo comestible. El cultivado en huerta es de hojas carnosas en forma de pencas, de color verde claro que puede alcanzar hasta un metro de altura. 3. Persona de carácter áspero o agresivo. 4. Persona fea. ^([cita requerida]).
noun: 1. En las ciudades romanas, la calle principal que tiene una dirección norte-sur.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cardo
- cardos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cardo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cardo in Spanish?
cardo appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).