intendente
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French intendant.
Noun
[edit]intendente m or f by sense (plural intendenti)
- a financial administrator
- a colonel in certain military forces
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]intendente (plural intendenti)
Further reading
[edit]- intendente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the Bourbon dynasty for various functions.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: in‧ten‧den‧te
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “intendente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from the French intendant, introduced by the common Bourbon dynasty for various functions.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “intendente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
intendente on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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