relanceado
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly from relance (“doubtful happenstance, coincidence”) + -ado.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /relanθeˈado/ [re.lãn̟.θeˈa.ð̞o] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /relanseˈado/ [re.lãn.seˈa.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: re‧lan‧ce‧a‧do
Adjective
relanceado (feminine relanceada, masculine plural relanceados, feminine plural relanceadas)
- (colloquial, El Salvador, of an occurence) infrequent; occasional
- Synonyms: infrecuente, ocasional
- Se esperan lluvias relanceadas para esta noche.
- Infrequent rain is expected for tonight.
Adverb
relanceado
- (colloquial, El Salvador) infrequently; occasionally
- Synonyms: relanciadamente, infrecuentemente, de vez en cuando
- Se espera que llueva relanceado esta noche.
- It's expected to rain infrequently tonight.
- Perdón por escribirte relanciado, he estado ocupado.
- Apologies for writing to you infrequently, I've been busy.
- 2003 [1980], Manlio Argueta, Un día en la vida, 15th edition, San Salvador: UCA Editores, page 105:
- Yo comencé a trabajar a los siete años, pero luego me mandaron a la escuela y la profe dijo que yo prometía y que me mandaron aunque fuera relanceado. A duras penas saqué el sexto.
- I started working when I was seven years old, but soon after they sent me to school and the prof said I had good prospects and they sent me even though it was infrequently. I was barely able to finish sixth grade.
Further reading
- “relanceado”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010