afectado
Portuguese
Adjective
afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)
- Superseded spelling of afetado. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Participle
afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)
- past participle of afectar
Spanish
Etymology
From afectar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /afeɡˈtado/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧fec‧ta‧do
Adjective
afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)
- affected
- unnatural; awkward
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Vestía la preciosa criatura a la moda, con elegancia no afectada.
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Derived terms
- afectadamente
Descendants
- → Cebuano: apektado
Participle
afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)
- past participle of afectar
Further reading
- “afectado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014