entenado

Spanish

Alternative forms

• antenado (obsolete)
• entenao (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish antenado, entenado, borrowed from Late Latin antenātus (“stepson”), from Latin ante nātus (“before birth”); compare Galician enteado, Mirandese antenado, and Portuguese enteado. Doublet of alnado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enteˈnado/ [ẽn̪.t̪eˈna.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: en‧te‧na‧do

Noun

entenado m (plural entenados, feminine entenada, feminine plural entenadas)

1. stepchild, stepson

   Synonyms: alnado (archaic), hijastro

2. (Nicaragua) an illegitimate stepson; a girlfriend’s child sired by a previous boyfriend

Further reading

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