desaparecido

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish desaparecido.

Noun

desaparecido (plural desaparecidos)

1. One of the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military rule in Argentina, presumed to have been killed by members of the regime.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 193:

     And Timerman's memoir, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number, was the book above all that clothed in living, hurting flesh the necessarily abstract idea of the desaparecido: the disappeared one or, to invest it with the more sinister and grisly past participle with which it came into the world, the one who has been “disappeared.”

   • 2011 October 27, Uki Goni, The Guardian:

     The French missionaries aided the mothers of Argentina's desaparecidos by accompanying them to police stations and military barracks looking for news of their children, before being kidnapped themselves by Astiz.

2. One of the people who disappeared during the 1972-1981 martial law in the Philippines, presumed to be killed by the military.

Galician

Participle

desaparecido (feminine desaparecida, masculine plural desaparecidos, feminine plural desaparecidas)

1. past participle of desaparecer

Portuguese

Etymology

From desaparecer +‎ -ido.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.za.pa.ɾeˈsi.du/, /d͡ʒi.za.pa.ɾeˈsi.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.za.pa.ɾeˈsi.du/, /d͡ʒi.za.pa.ɾeˈsi.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.za.pa.ɾeˈsi.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.zɐ.pɐ.ɾɨˈsi.du/ [dɨ.zɐ.pɐ.ɾɨˈsi.ðu]

• Hyphenation: de‧sa‧pa‧re‧ci‧do

Adjective

desaparecido (feminine desaparecida, masculine plural desaparecidos, feminine plural desaparecidas, not comparable)

1. disappeared

Participle

desaparecido (feminine desaparecida, masculine plural desaparecidos, feminine plural desaparecidas)

1. past participle of desaparecer

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /desapaɾeˈθido/ [d̪e.sa.pa.ɾeˈθi.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /desapaɾeˈsido/ [d̪e.sa.pa.ɾeˈsi.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: de‧sa‧pa‧re‧ci‧do

Adjective

desaparecido (feminine desaparecida, masculine plural desaparecidos, feminine plural desaparecidas)

1. disappeared, missing

   ¿Adónde fue el conejo desaparacido?

   Where did the missing rabbit go?

Noun

desaparecido m (plural desaparecidos, feminine desaparecida, feminine plural desaparecidas)

1. disappeared, missing people or things

   La policía encontré ayer los desparecidos.

   Yesterday the police found the missing individuals.

Participle

desaparecido (feminine desaparecida, masculine plural desaparecidos, feminine plural desaparecidas)

1. past participle of desaparecer

Further reading

• “desaparecido”, 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