narrador

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nārrātōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nə.rəˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [na.raˈðoɾ]

Noun

narrador m (plural narradors, feminine narradora)

1. narrator

Related terms

• narrar

Further reading

• “narrador” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “narrador”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “narrador” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “narrador” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin nārrātor.

Noun

narrador m (plural narradores, feminine narradora, feminine plural narradoras)

1. narrator, storyteller

Related terms

• narrar

Further reading

• “narrador”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nārrātōrem. By surface analysis, narrar +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /na.ʁaˈdoʁ/ [na.haˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /na.ʁaˈdoʁ/ [na.haˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /na.ʁaˈdoɾ/ [na.haˈdoɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /na.ʁaˈdoʁ/ [na.χaˈdoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /na.ʁaˈdoɻ/ [na.haˈdoɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐ.ʁɐˈdoɾ/ [nɐ.ʁɐˈðoɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐ.ʁɐˈdoɾ/ [nɐ.ʁɐˈðoɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐ.ʁɐˈdo.ɾi/ [nɐ.ʁɐˈðo.ɾi]

• Hyphenation: nar‧ra‧dor

Noun

narrador m (plural narradores, feminine narradora, feminine plural narradoras)

1. (narratology) narrator (person or the voice whose viewpoint is used in telling a story)
2. narrator; sportscaster (someone who narrates events as they occur or are shown, such as a documentary or sporting event)
3. storyteller (person who relates stories to an audience)

Related terms

• narrar

Further reading

• “narrador”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin nārrātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naraˈdoɾ/ [na.raˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: na‧rra‧dor

Noun

narrador m (plural narradores, feminine narradora, feminine plural narradoras)

1. narrator
2. storyteller

   Synonym: cuentista

3. (sports) commentator, sportscaster

   Synonym: comentador

   • 2021 February 17, Roger Sabatés, “Lecciones de idiomas en la cabina de retransmisión”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid, →ISSN:

     Pero, ¿cómo hacen los narradores para referirse y comunicarse con las estrellas de una competición en la que conviven una cincuentena de procedencias diferentes?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• narración
• narrar
• narrativa

 

Further reading

• “narrador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014