curvados

Curvados is the plural masculine form of the past participle curvado in Spanish and Portuguese. In both languages, curvar means to bend or curve, and curvado is the passive participle/adjective meaning bent or curved. Thus curvados is used to describe something that has been bent or formed into curves, and it agrees with the noun in gender and number. Examples: Spanish: hojas curvadas, alambres curvados; Portuguese: estruturas curvadas, tubos curvados.

In usage, curvados functions as an adjective describing physical shapes or components, and can appear after a linking verb as in los alambres están curvados, as well as before nouns in fixed expressions. In technical and engineering contexts the term commonly denotes bent components, such as pipes or reinforcement bars that follow a curved geometry.

In botany, curved morphology is described with curvadas forms: folhas curvadas, raízes curvadas. In anatomy or medicine, curved structures may be described with curvado forms, though more specialized terms are often used.

Etymology: curvar derives from Latin curvare meaning to bend; curvado is formed with the suffix -ado.

The plural curvados follows standard gender/number agreement in each language.

See also: curvar, curvatura, curva, curvado.