encerrado

Portuguese

Participle

encerrado (feminine encerrada, masculine plural encerrados, feminine plural encerradas)

1. past participle of encerrar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /enθeˈrado/ [ẽn̟.θeˈra.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /enseˈrado/ [ẽn.seˈra.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: en‧ce‧rra‧do

Adjective

encerrado (feminine encerrada, masculine plural encerrados, feminine plural encerradas)

1. pent, shut-in, cooped up, locked up, locked down confined, holed up, shut away
2. stuck, trapped (e.g. stuck in a room, office, elevator, etc.)
3. encased, enclosed, closed in, sealed
4. no longer available, discontinued

Participle

encerrado (feminine encerrada, masculine plural encerrados, feminine plural encerradas)

1. past participle of encerrar

Further reading

• “encerrado”, 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