adelantado

English

Etymology

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

Noun

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

  1. (historical) A governor of a province; a commander, in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.
    • 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
      The grand master [] communicated it to the principal chiefs on the borders ; among others , to Don Pedro Henriquez , adelantado of Andalusia , Don Juan de Silva , count of Cifuentes , Don Alonso de Aguilar , and the marquis of Cadiz .

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do
  • IPA(key): /ʔadelanˈtado/, [ʔʌ.d̪ɪ.l̪ʌn̪ˈt̪a.d̪ʊ]

Adjective

adelantado

  1. advanced

Verb

adelantado

  1. for a clock to be ahead of actual time

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/ [a.ð̞e.lãn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do

Adjective

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

  1. ahead of one's time, advanced
    Synonym: adelantado a su época
  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

Participle

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

  1. past participle of adelantar

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do
  • IPA(key): /ʔadelanˈtado/, [ʔɐ.dɛ.lɐnˈta.do]

Adjective

adelantado

  1. advanced; earlier than expected or needed
    Synonyms: maaga, maagap, mabilis
  2. developed; progressive (of a people, nation, etc.)
    Synonyms: maunlad, progresibo
  3. paid in advance
  4. impudent; brazen
    Synonyms: pangahas, mapangahas

Noun

adelantado

  1. (historical, politics) governor general (specifically during the early Spanish regime)
    Synonym: gobernador heneral

References

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