intendente
Italian edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French intendant.
Noun edit
intendente m or f by sense (plural intendenti)
- a financial administrator
- a colonel in certain military forces
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Participle edit
intendente (plural intendenti)
Further reading edit
- intendente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the Bourbon dynasty for various functions.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: in‧ten‧den‧te
Noun edit
intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes)
- (historical) intendant (a high-ranking local administrator)
- superintendent, administrator
- (military) quartermaster
- a rank in the Portuguese Public Security Police
- (Brazil, obsolete) mayor
- Synonym: prefeito
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the common Bourbon dynasty for various functions.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes, feminine intendente or intendenta, feminine plural intendentes or intendentas)
- manager, supervisor (a person whose job is to manage a business)
- (historical) intendant (a high-ranking local administrator in the Spanish Empire)
- (military) quartermaster general
- (Argentina, Uruguay) mayor (the leader of a city or a municipality)
- (Chile) governor, intendant (the leader of a region)
- (Colombia) a rank in the National Police
- (Costa Rica) intendant (the leader of a special semi-autonomous district)
- (Cuba) intendant (a local government administrator)
- (Ecuador, Mexico, law enforcement) inspector
- (Paraguay) intendant (the leader of a district)
- (Uruguay) intendant (the leader of a department)
- Synonym: intendente departamental
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Further reading edit
- “intendente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- intendente on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es