adelantado

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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?)

Translations

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish adelantado.

Adjective

adelantádo

  1. advanced, modern
  2. progressive

Portuguese

Noun

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

  1. adelantado (governor of a Spanish province)

Spanish

Etymology

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

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

Adjective

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 terms

Noun

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

  1. A governor of a province; a commander.

Verb

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

  1. Masculine singular past participle of adelantar.

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