fatigado

Fatigado is a masculine adjective used in Spanish and Portuguese to describe someone who is fatigued or exhausted after physical or mental effort. It can refer to a state of weariness resulting from work, travel, illness, or stress, and is often interchangeable with other terms like cansado or agotado in everyday speech.

Etymology and usage notes: Fatigado derives from the verb fatigar, which comes from Latin fatigare, meaning to tire or exhaust. The participle fatigado developed in both languages as an adjective, and in some dialects or literary contexts it retains a more formal or technical tone.

In Portuguese, fatigado and its feminine fatigada are common and widely used across registers to indicate weariness. In Spanish, fatigado exists primarily as the past participle of fatigar and tends to appear in formal, literary, or regional contexts; speakers generally prefer cansado or agotado in colloquial speech. The word can also appear in compound or figurative phrases such as states of fatigue in situations of prolonged effort.

Forms and related terms: The standard forms are fatigado (masculine) and fatigada (feminine), with plural fatigados and fatigadas. Related nouns include fatiga (fatigue). Related adjectives include fatigoso, which can describe something tedious or fatiguing, as in the sense of causing weariness.

See also: Fatiga (Spanish), fadiga (Portuguese), fatigue (English). The term is primarily used to describe a physical or mental state rather than a specific condition, and its exact register varies by language and dialect.