paulatino

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paulatino.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paw.laˈt͡ʃĩ.nu/ [paʊ̯.laˈt͡ʃĩ.nu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paw.laˈt͡ʃĩ.nu/ [paʊ̯.laˈt͡ʃĩ.nu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paw.laˈt͡ʃi.no/ [paʊ̯.laˈt͡ʃi.no]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /paw.lɐˈti.nu/

• Hyphenation: pau‧la‧ti‧no

Adjective

paulatino (feminine paulatina, masculine plural paulatinos, feminine plural paulatinas)

1. gradual

Derived terms

• paulatinamente

Further reading

• “paulatino”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paulātim (“gradually”), probably at first pronounced */paulaˈtin/ and from there turned into an adjective per the suffix -ino. Attested from at least 1817.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ino

• IPA^(key): /paulaˈtino/ [pau̯.laˈt̪i.no]

• Audio (Argentina):

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: pau‧la‧ti‧no

Adjective

paulatino (feminine paulatina, masculine plural paulatinos, feminine plural paulatinas)

1. gradual
   • 2021 February 13, Guillermo Altares, “Neandertales, los humanos solitarios”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El paulatino acercamiento entre los Homo sapiens, los humanos actuales, y los neandertales, desde el punto de vista intelectual, pero también genético, ha sido uno de los procesos científicos más desafiantes de las últimas décadas.

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Derived terms

• paulatinamente

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: paulatino

Further reading

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