entenado

Spanish

Alternative forms

antenado (obsolete)
entenao (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish antenado, entenado, borrowed from Late Latin antenātus (“stepson”), from Latin ante nātus (“before birth”); compare Galician enteado, Mirandese antenado, and Portuguese enteado. Doublet of alnado.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /enteˈnado/ [ẽn̪.t̪eˈna.ð̞o]
Rhymes: -ado
Syllabification: en‧te‧na‧do

Noun

entenado m (plural entenados, feminine entenada, feminine plural entenadas)

stepchild, stepson
Synonyms: alnado (archaic), hijastro
(Nicaragua) an illegitimate stepson; a girlfriend’s child sired by a previous boyfriend

Further reading

“entenado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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