adelantado

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

NounEdit

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

1. A governor of a province; a commander.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Prescott to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

governor of a province

• Portuguese: adelantado m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adelantado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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HiligaynonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish adelantado.

AdjectiveEdit

adelantádo

1. advanced, modern
2. progressive

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. adelantado (governor of a Spanish province)

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Past participle of adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /adelanˈtado/, [aðelãn̪ˈt̪aðo]

AdjectiveEdit

adelantado (feminine singular adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)

1. ahead of one's time, advanced
2. gifted or advanced for one's age

   Synonym: precoz

3. early, ahead of time

Derived termsEdit

• adelantadamente
• por adelantado

NounEdit

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. A governor of a province; a commander.

VerbEdit

adelantado m (feminine singular adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of adelantar.

Further readingEdit

• “adelantado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.