prelado

From Old Galician-Portuguese prelado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin praelatus, form past participle of praeferō (“I prefer”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish prelado.

• IPA^(key): [pɾe.ˈla.ðʊ]

prelado m (plural prelados)

1. (Christianity) prelate

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “prelado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “prelado”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “prelado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “prelado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prelado, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin praelātus, form past participle of praeferō (“to prefer”).

• Hyphenation: pre‧la‧do

prelado m (plural prelados)

1. (Christianity) prelate (a clergyman of high rank and authority)

• arcebispo, bispo, vigário-geral

From Medieval Latin praelātus.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈlado/ [pɾeˈla.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pre‧la‧do

prelado m (plural prelados, feminine prelada, feminine plural preladas)

1. prelate

   Synonyms: (bishop) obispo, (bishop) mitrado

• “prelado”, 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