allegado

Spanish

Etymology

From allegar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aʝeˈɡado/ [a.ʝeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /aʝeˈɡado/ [a.ʝeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /aʎeˈɡado/ [a.ʎeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aʃeˈɡado/ [a.ʃeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aʒeˈɡado/ [a.ʒeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o]

• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧lle‧ga‧do

Adjective

allegado (feminine allegada, masculine plural allegados, feminine plural allegadas)

1. close, near

Noun

allegado m (plural allegados)

1. member of one's inner circle; (in plural) nearest and dearest
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 247:

     No se deben coger flores en los cementerios, porque son amenazas de muerte, no sólo para el que las toma, sino también para sus deudos y allegados.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. follower

See also

• deudo

Participle

allegado (feminine allegada, masculine plural allegados, feminine plural allegadas)

1. past participle of allegar

Further reading

• “allegado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10