afectado

Portuguese

Adjective

afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)

1. (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetado; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Participle

afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)

1. past participle of afectar

Further reading

• “afectado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From afectar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /afeɡˈtado/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧fec‧ta‧do

Adjective

afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)

1. affected
2. unnatural; awkward

   su manera afectada de hablar

   his awkward way with words

   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Vestía la preciosa criatura a la moda, con elegancia no afectada.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• afectadamente

Descendants

• → Cebuano: apektado

Participle

afectado (feminine afectada, masculine plural afectados, feminine plural afectadas)

1. past participle of afectar

Further reading

• “afectado”, 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