cegada

Cegada is a term that occurs in Iberian Romance languages as the feminine past participle of cegar, meaning to blind. As an adjective, cegada describes someone or something that has been blinded; in more literary or figurative contexts, it can denote a state of being overwhelmed by light, emotion, or surprise. The noun sense “the act of blinding” is rare and typically found in medical, legal, or rhetorical texts rather than in everyday speech. In practice, cegada is most often encountered in phrases that use blindness as a metaphor.

In Spanish and Galician, as well as Portuguese, the form cegada aligns with the same root ce-gar and shares similar meanings, with gender and number inflections adjusting to the surrounding noun. Etymologically, cegada traces back to the verb ceGar, which derives from the broader family of words for blindness attested in Romance languages.

There is no widely recognized standalone concept, institution, organization, or place named cegada in major reference works. Accordingly, the term is typically treated as a grammatical form rather than as a topic with a separate entry. Some rare uses may appear in onomastic contexts as a surname or in local toponyms, but such cases are uncommon and not broadly documented.