protectorado
Portuguese
Noun
protectorado m (plural protectorados)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of protetorado. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾoteɡtoˈɾado/ [pɾo.t̪eɣ̞.t̪oˈɾa.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: pro‧tec‧to‧ra‧do
Noun
protectorado m (plural protectorados)
- protectorate
- 2015 July 14, “¿Quién es el jeque que ha comprado el 10% de El Corte Inglés?”, in El País[1]:
- Pero sobre todo grandes inversiones en el Reino Unido, que gobernó Qatar como un protectorado hasta 1971.
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Further reading
- “protectorado”, 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