adelantado
English
Etymology
Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).
Noun
adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)
- (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 .
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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]
Related terms
Portuguese
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)
- ahead of one's time, advanced
- Synonym: adelantado a su época
- gifted or advanced for one's age
- Synonym: precoz
- early, ahead of time
Derived terms
Participle
adelantado (feminine adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)
- past participle of adelantar
Further reading
- “adelantado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish adelantado.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do
- IPA(key): /ʔadelanˈtado/, [ʔɐ.dɛ.lɐnˈta.do]
Adjective
adelantado
Related terms
Noun
adelantado
- (historical, politics) governor general (specifically during the early Spanish regime)
- Synonym: gobernador heneral
References
- “adelantado”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018