-ado

• IPA^(key): /ˈado/
• Hyphenation: a‧do
• Rhymes: -ado

-ado

1. See -ad-

From Old Portuguese -ado, from Latin -ātus and -ātum, from Proto-Italic *-ātos. Doublet of -ato.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.du/, [ˈa.ðu]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.du/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.do/

-ado m (feminine -ada, plural -ados, feminine plural -adas)

1. forms the masculine singular past participle of verbs whose infinitives end in -ar

   ‎falar (“to speak”) + ‎-ado → ‎falado (“spoken”)

2. forms adjectives, from verbs, meaning “that has suffered the action,” and nouns meaning “something or someone who has suffered the action”

   ‎pescar (“to fish”) + ‎-ado → ‎pescado (“which has been fished”)

   ‎pescar (“to fish”) + ‎-ado → ‎pescado (“the yield from a fishing trip”)

3. forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “which contains the suffixed noun”

   ‎farpa (“barb”) + ‎-ado → ‎farpado (“barbed”)

   ‎pena (“feather”) + ‎-ado → ‎penado (“feathered”)

4. forms nouns, from the names of types of professionals, meaning the position of being that type of professional; -dom

   ‎decurião (“decurion”) + ‎-ado → ‎decuriado (“the position of a decurion”)

5. forms nouns, from the names of types of professionals, meaning the class formed by those professionals; -ate

   ‎operário (“worker”) + ‎-ado → ‎operariado (“the class formed by workers”)

6. forms adjectives, from the names of colours, meaning -ish

   ‎amarelo (“yellow, the colour yellow”) + ‎-ado → ‎amarelado (“yellowish”)

   ‎azul (“blue, the colour blue”) + ‎-ado → ‎azulado (“bluish”)

• (position of a professional): -ato

• (forms past participles): -ido

• a- -ado
• es- -ado

From Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic *-ātos. Doublet of -ato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈado/, [ˈaðo]

-ado

1. Suffix indicating the past participle of regular -ar verbs.

• -ada