# adelantado
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

### Noun

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)
* (historical) A title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory
** 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:The grand master […] communicated it to the principal chiefs on the borders ; among others , to Don Pedro Henriquez , adelantado of Andalusia , Don Juan de Silva , count of Cifuentes , Don Alonso de Aguilar , and the marquis of Cadiz .

#### Translations
### References

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

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do
* IPA: /ʔadelanˈtado/ [ʔɐ.d̪e.l̪ɐn̪ˈt̪a.d̪o]

### Adjective

adelantado
* advanced

### Verb

adelantado
* for a clock to be ahead of actual time

#### Related terms

* adelanto

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

From Spanish adelantado.

### Adjective

adelantádo
* advanced, modern
* progressive

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.de.lɐ̃ˈta.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.de.lɐ̃ˈta.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.de.lɐ̃ˈta.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.dɨ.lɐ̃ˈta.du/ [ɐ.ðɨ.lɐ̃ˈta.ðu]

### Noun

adelantado m (plural adelantados)
* adelantado (governor of a Spanish province)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Past participle of adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /adelanˈtado/ [a.ð̞e.lãn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -ado
* Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do

### Adjective

adelantado (feminine adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)
* ahead of one's time, advanced
    Synonyms: adelantado a su época, avanzado
* gifted or advanced for one's age
    Synonym: precoz
* early, ahead of time
    Synonym: temprano

#### Derived terms

* adelantadamente
* por adelantado

### Noun

adelantado m (plural adelantados)
* a governor of a province; a commander

### Participle

adelantado (feminine adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)
* past participle of adelantar

### Further reading

* “adelantado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado (“advanced”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔadelanˈtado/ [ʔɐ.d̪ɛ.lɐn̪ˈt̪aː.d̪o]
* Rhymes: -ado
* Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do

### Adjective

adelantado (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜇᜓ)
* advanced; earlier than expected or needed
    Synonyms: maaga, maagap, mabilis, abansado
    Adelantado ang relong iyon.That watch is advanced.
* developed; progressive (of a people, nation, etc.)
    Synonyms: maunlad, progresibo
* paid in advance
* impudent; brazen
    Synonyms: pangahas, mapangahas

#### Related terms

* adelanto
* delantal
* delantera

### Noun

adelantado (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜇᜓ) (historical, politics)
* adelantado; governor general (specifically during the early Spanish regime)
    Synonym: gobernador heneral

### References

* “adelantado”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “adelantado”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 11