predilecto
Portuguese
Adjective
predilecto (feminine predilecta, masculine plural predilectos, feminine plural predilectas)
- Superseded spelling of predileto. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin praedīlēctus.
Adjective
predilecto (feminine predilecta, masculine plural predilectos, feminine plural predilectas)
- favorite, preferred
- Synonyms: favorito, preferido
Related terms
- predilección
Further reading
- “predilecto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014