pretérito
See also: preterito
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praeteritus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈtɛ.ɾi.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈtɛ.ɾi.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾɨˈtɛ.ɾi.tu/
- Rhymes: -ɛɾitu
Adjective
pretérito (feminine pretérita, masculine plural pretéritos, feminine plural pretéritas)
- (grammar, relational) of the preterite tense
- (uncommon) past (having already happened)
- Synonym: passado
- (Brazil, chiefly gay slang) shocked, taken aback
Noun
pretérito m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “pretérito”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “pretérito”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾeˈteɾito/ [pɾeˈt̪e.ɾi.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -eɾito
- Syllabification: pre‧té‧ri‧to
Adjective
pretérito (feminine pretérita, masculine plural pretéritos, feminine plural pretéritas)
- past; former
- 2016, “Un Bolero en Berlín”, in Trap Mirror, performed by Los Chikos del Maíz:
- Crimen y castigo, busco abrigo en noches gélidas / Mañanas pretéritas / Arquitectura del olvido
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (grammar, relational) of the preterite verb tense
Noun
pretérito m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pretérito”, 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