intendente

• IPA^(key): /in.tenˈdɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: in‧ten‧dèn‧te

Borrowed from French intendant.

intendente m or f by sense (plural intendenti)

1. a financial administrator
2. a colonel in certain military forces

• intendente di finanza
• intendente generale

• intendenza

intendente (plural intendenti)

1. present participle of intendere

• intendente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the Bourbon dynasty for various functions.

• Hyphenation: in‧ten‧den‧te

intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes)

1. (historical) intendant (a high-ranking local administrator)
2. superintendent, administrator
3. (military) quartermaster
4. a rank in the Portuguese Public Security Police
5. (Brazil, obsolete) mayor

   Synonym: prefeito

• superintendente

• intendência
• intender

• “intendente” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the common Bourbon dynasty for various functions.

• IPA^(key): /intenˈdente/ [ĩn̪.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: in‧ten‧den‧te

intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes, feminine intendente or intendenta, feminine plural intendentes or intendentas)

1. manager, supervisor (a person whose job is to manage a business)

   Synonyms: gerente, director

2. (historical) intendant (a high-ranking local administrator in the Spanish Empire)
3. (military) quartermaster general
4. (Argentina, Uruguay) mayor (the leader of a city or a municipality)

   Synonyms: intendente municipal, alcalde

5. (Chile) governor, intendant (the leader of a region)
6. (Colombia) a rank in the National Police
7. (Costa Rica) intendant (the leader of a special semi-autonomous district)
8. (Cuba) intendant (a local government administrator)
9. (Ecuador, Mexico, law enforcement) inspector
10. (Paraguay) intendant (the leader of a district)
11. (Uruguay) intendant (the leader of a department)

    Synonym: intendente departamental

• “intendente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• intendente on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es