carbonado

Meanings

Noun

• Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.
• A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.

Verb

• To make a carbonado of; to score and broil.
• To cut or hack, as in combat.

Origin

• . Carbonada appears to have been modelled after Italian carbonata, from carbone (from Latin carbō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-) + -ata.
• The verb is derived from the noun.
• Borrowed from Portuguese carbonado, probably from carbono (currently only attested later than carbonado) + -ado. Carbono is borrowed from French carbone, from Latin carbō; for further derivation, see etymology 1.