regidor

Borrowed from Spanish regidor.

regidor (plural regidors or regidores)

2. A position in municipal governments in Spain and Latin America, roughly corresponding to alderman (member of municipal legislative body).

• grodier, rigored

From regir +‎ -dor.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.ʒiˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.d͡ʒiˈðoɾ]

regidor m (plural regidors, feminine regidora, feminine plural regidores)

1. regidor, councillor

• regidorat

• “regidor”, 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
• “regidor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

• Regidor
• Rexidor

Borrowed from Spanish regidor.

regidor (animate, plural regidores or regidoresmeh)

1. (he is) a regidor; an alderman or councilman.
   • 1583: grant of a site for a house, San Miguel Tocuillan

     Do jua Migel Regidor
     (Don Juan Miguel, regidor.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1720: confirmation of the status of fields belonging to Santa Elena (Tulancingo)

     auh tiquitohua timochintin Gou^or Rexidor m^or yhuan alcaldes timochintin ofiçiales de rrepublica
     (And all of us, governor, regidor mayor, and alcaldes, all of us officials of the commonwealth)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Lockhart, James (1991) Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 74, 104

From regir (“to govern”) +‎ -dor.

regidor m (plural regidores, feminine regidora, feminine plural regidoras)

1. regidor (a position in municipal governments in Spain and Latin America, roughly corresponding to alderman (member of municipal legislative body))

   Synonym: concejal

• → Classical Nahuatl: regidor
• → English: regidor

• “regidor”, 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