acoplado
Portuguese
Etymology
From acoplar (“to couple”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.koˈpla.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.koˈpla.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.kuˈpla.du/ [ɐ.kuˈpla.ðu]
- Hyphenation: a‧co‧pla‧do
Adjective
acoplado (feminine acoplada, masculine plural acoplados, feminine plural acopladas, comparable)
Participle
acoplado (feminine acoplada, masculine plural acoplados, feminine plural acopladas)
- past participle of acoplar
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akoˈplado/ [a.koˈpla.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧co‧pla‧do
Noun
acoplado m (plural acoplados)
- (sometimes derogatory) hanger-on, tagger-along
- (Latin America) trailer (vehicle towed behind another)
- Synonym: tráiler
Participle
acoplado (feminine acoplada, masculine plural acoplados, feminine plural acopladas)
- past participle of acoplar
Further reading
- “acoplado”, 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