entenado
Spanish
Alternative forms
- antenado (obsolete)
- entenao (dialectal)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish antenado, entenado, borrowed from Late Latin antenātus (“stepson”), from Latin ante nātus (“before birth”); compare Galician enteado, Mirandese antenado, and Portuguese enteado. Doublet of alnado.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enteˈnado/ [ẽn̪.t̪eˈna.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: en‧te‧na‧do
Noun
entenado m (plural entenados, feminine entenada, feminine plural entenadas)
- stepchild, stepson
- Synonyms: alnado (archaic), hijastro
- (Nicaragua) an illegitimate stepson; a girlfriend’s child sired by a previous boyfriend
Further reading
- “entenado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014