predilecto
Portuguese
Adjective
predilecto (feminine predilecta, masculine plural predilectos, feminine plural predilectas)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of predileto; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin praedīlēctus.
Adjective
predilecto (feminine predilecta, masculine plural predilectos, feminine plural predilectas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “predilecto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024