volador

From Spanish volador (“flying”).

volador (plural voladors)

1. A flying fish of California (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus).
2. A flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans).

• (Exocoetus californicus): volator

• “volador”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

volador m sg (feminine singular voladora, neuter singular volador or voladoro, masculine plural voladores, feminine plural voladores)

1. flying

From volar +‎ -dor.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bu.ləˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vo.ləˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vo.laˈðoɾ]

volador (feminine voladora, masculine plural voladors, feminine plural voladores)

1. flying
2. flyaway, light

   Synonym: voladís

3. (figurative) fleeting

volador m (plural voladors)

1. clipping of peix volador (“flying fish”)

• “volador”, 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
• “volador”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “volador” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “volador” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /bolaˈdoɾ/ [bo.laˈð̞oɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: vo‧la‧dor

volador (feminine voladora, masculine plural voladores, feminine plural voladoras)

1. flying
2. flighty (flying easily, flying a lot)

volador m (plural voladores)

1. flier (something that flies)
2. flying fish
3. rocket
4. toy windmill
5. (Mexico) a dancer in the Danza de los Voladores

• “volador”, 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
• “volador”, 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