alegato

Borrowed from Latin allēgātus.

• IPA^(key): /aleˈɡato/ [a.leˈɣ̞a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: a‧le‧ga‧to

alegato m (plural alegatos)

1. allegation

   Synonym: alegación

2. argument

   el alegato final ― the closing argument

   • 2015 September 19, “La conga de Rajoy y el PP”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Fue […] todo un alegato a favor de la historia y la lucha del movimiento gay para lograr el matrimonio homosexual

     It […] was an argument completely in favour of history and the gay-rights struggle to attain homosexual marriage

3. (law) plea; statement

   lanzar un alegato ― release a statement

• “alegato”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish alegato, from Latin allēgātus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaleˈɡato/ [ʔɐ.lɛˈɣaː.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: a‧le‧ga‧to

alegato (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜄᜆᜓ) (law)

1. brief submitted to a court of law

   Synonyms: ulat, salaysay, silabo

• “alegato”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “alegato”, 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 23