atrás

See also: atras, ātras, and ātrās

Galician

Alternative forms

• atrais

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese atras (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *ad trans, from Latin trans (“beyond”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɾas/

Adverb

atrás

1. behind, in back of
   • 1365, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Dominguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 495:

     outra leira de terreo que jaz atras o çelleiro do Penedo con hun presegeiro que y esta en ella.

     another plot of land which lies behind the barn of Penedo, with a peach tree which is there in it

2. rearward, backwards, towards the back
3. back in time; back then; ago
   • 1266, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 323:

     todas as outras mandas e todos os outros testamentos que eu fige atras aqui non vallan

     every other charter and every other testament I've done before is void

   Alá atrás eramos ben amigos. ― Back then we were good friends.

   Synonyms: entón, daquela

Antonyms

• (behind): adiante

Derived terms

• atrás de
• cara atrás

References

• “atras” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “atras” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “atrás” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “atrás” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “atrás” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• atráis (eye dialect, Brazilian)
• atras (obsolete)
• attras (obsolete)
• attrás (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From a (“at”) + trás (“beyond”), from Latin trans (“beyond”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈtɾa(j)s/ [aˈtɾa(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈtɾa(j)s/ [aˈtɾa(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈtɾa(j)ʃ/ [aˈtɾa(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈtɾaʃ/

• Audio (Oporto, Portugal)

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Preposition

atrás

1. behind (at the back of)

   O supermercado fica atrás da padaria.

   The supermarket is behind the bakery.

   Synonyms: trás, detrás

   Antonyms: adiante, à frente

2. after (looking for)

   A polícia está atrás dele.

   The police are after him.

3. ago (in the past)

   dois meses atrás ― two months ago

   Synonyms: há, faz

Derived terms

• ir atrás

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Spanish

Etymology

a +‎ tras

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɾas/ [aˈt̪ɾas]

• Audio (Latin America)

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• Rhymes: -as
• Hyphenation: a‧trás

Adverb

atrás

1. behind
2. back in time, ago

   Synonym: hace

   miles de años atrás ― thousands of years ago

Derived terms

• campo atrás
• con una mano atrás y otra delante
• cuenta atrás
• echarse atrás
• hacia atrás
• marcha atrás
• paso atrás
• quedarse atrás (“to lag behind”)
• tiempo atrás

 

Related terms

• atrasar
• atraso
• trasero
• de atrás

Descendants

• → Tagalog: atras

Interjection

atrás

1. get back, back off, back away

Further reading

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