adelanto
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adeˈlanto/ [a.ð̞eˈlãn̪.t̪o]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -anto
- Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧to
Etymology 1
Deverbal from adelantar.
Noun
adelanto m (plural adelantos)
- progress, advancement, improvement
- Synonym: adelantamiento
- rescheduling for an earlier date
- Synonym: adelantamiento
- advance (anticipated payment)
- Synonym: anticipo
- down payment (anticipated payment made to secure a purchase)
- preview, sample, snippet, teaser
- adelanto del álbum ― album preview / teaser
Descendants
- → Tagalog: adelanto
Etymology 2
Verb
adelanto
- first-person singular present indicative of adelantar
Further reading
- “adelanto”, 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
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish adelanto (“advancement”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔadeˈlanto/ [ʔɐ.d̪ɛˈlan̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -anto
- Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧to
Noun
adelanto (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- down payment
- Synonyms: paunang-bayad, antisipo
- amount of time in advance
- Synonyms: pangunguna, pagkauna, kabilisan, tulin
- Limang minuto ang adelento ng relo ko.
- The amount of time in advance of my watch is five minutes.
- advancement; progress; progressiveness
- impudence; brazenness
- Synonym: kapangahasan
Related terms
Adjective
adelanto (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- in advance; ahead of time (as of watches, clocks, etc.)
Further reading
- “adelanto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 11