observador
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin observātōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [up.sər.bəˈðo]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [op.sər.vəˈðo]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [op.seɾ.vaˈðoɾ]
Adjective
observador (feminine observadora, masculine plural observadors, feminine plural observadores)
Noun
observador m (plural observadors, feminine observadora, feminine plural observadores)
Further reading
- “observador”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “observador”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “observador” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “observador” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin observātōrem.
Adjective
observador (feminine observadora, masculine plural observadores, feminine plural observadoras)
Noun
observador m (plural observadores, feminine observadora, feminine plural observadoras)
Related terms
Further reading
- “observador”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin observātōrem. By surface analysis, observar + -dor.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /o.bi.seʁ.vaˈdoʁ/ [o.bi.seɦ.vaˈdoh], /ob.seʁ.vaˈdoʁ/ [ob.seɦ.vaˈdoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /o.bi.seɾ.vaˈdoɾ/, /ob.seɾ.vaˈdoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /o.bi.seʁ.vaˈdoʁ/ [o.bi.seʁ.vaˈdoχ], /ob.seʁ.vaˈdoʁ/ [ob.seʁ.vaˈdoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ob.seɻ.vaˈdoɻ/, /o.bi.seɻ.vaˈdoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.bsɨɾ.vɐˈdoɾ/ [ɔ.βsɨɾ.vɐˈðoɾ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.bsɨɾ.bɐˈdoɾ/ [ɔ.βsɨɾ.βɐˈðoɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.bsɨɾ.vɐˈdo.ɾi/ [ɔ.βsɨɾ.vɐˈðo.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: ob‧ser‧va‧dor
Noun
observador m (plural observadores, feminine observadora, feminine plural observadoras)
- observer (someone who observes something)
- observer (person sent as a representative to monitor but not to participate in an event)
- Synonym: monitor
Further reading
- “observador”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin observator, equivalent to observar + -dor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /obseɾbaˈdoɾ/ [oβ̞.seɾ.β̞aˈð̞oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: ob‧ser‧va‧dor
Adjective
observador (feminine observadora, masculine plural observadores, feminine plural observadoras)
Noun
observador m (plural observadores, feminine observadora, feminine plural observadoras)
- observer
- Synonym: espectador
- 2024 November 8, Kaitlan Collins, “Batallas desde el patio de Mar-a-Lago: cómo el equipo de Trump compite por los puestos”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- Los observadores notaron a Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Tom Barrack y los copresidentes de la transición de Trump, Howard Lutnick y Linda McMahon, rondando el club este miércoles.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
Further reading
- “observador”, 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