protectorado

Portuguese

Noun

protectorado m (plural protectorados)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of protetorado; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾoteɡtoˈɾado/ [pɾo.t̪eɣ̞.t̪oˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pro‧tec‧to‧ra‧do

Noun

protectorado m (plural protectorados)

1. protectorate
   • 2015 July 14, “¿Quién es el jeque que ha comprado el 10% de El Corte Inglés?”, in El País‎:

     Pero sobre todo grandes inversiones en el Reino Unido, que gobernó Qatar como un protectorado hasta 1971.

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Further reading

• “protectorado”, 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