intendente
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.tenˈdɛn.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛnte
- Hyphenation: in‧ten‧dèn‧te
Noun
intendente m or f by sense (plural intendenti)
- a financial administrator
- a colonel in certain military forces
Derived terms
- intendente di finanza
- intendente generale
Related terms
Further reading
- intendente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the Bourbon dynasty for various functions.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.tẽˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.tẽˈdẽ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.tẽˈdẽ.tɨ/
- Hyphenation: in‧ten‧den‧te
Noun
intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes)
- (historical) intendant (a high-ranking local administrator)
- superintendent, administrator
- (military) quartermaster
- a rank in the Portuguese Public Security Police
- (Brazil, obsolete) mayor
- Synonym: prefeito
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the common Bourbon dynasty for various functions.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /intenˈdente/ [ĩn̪.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: in‧ten‧den‧te
Noun
intendente m or f by sense (plural intendentes, feminine intendente or intendenta, feminine plural intendentes or intendentas)
- manager, supervisor (a person whose job is to manage a business)
- (historical) intendant (a high-ranking local administrator in the Spanish Empire)
- (military) quartermaster general
- (Argentina, Uruguay) mayor (the leader of a city or a municipality)
- (Chile) governor, intendant (the leader of a region)
- (Colombia) a rank in the National Police
- (Costa Rica) intendant (the leader of a special semi-autonomous district)
- (Cuba) intendant (a local government administrator)
- (Ecuador, Mexico, law enforcement) inspector
- (Paraguay) intendant (the leader of a district)
- (Uruguay) intendant (the leader of a department)
- Synonym: intendente departamental
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “intendente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- intendente on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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