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Verb
adultero
- first-person singular present indicative of adulterar
Ido
Noun
adultero (plural adulteri)
- adultery
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin adulterum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adultero (feminine adultera, masculine plural adulteri, feminine plural adultere)
- adulterous
Noun
adultero m (plural adulteri, feminine adultera)
- adulterer
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dulˈtɛ.ro/
- Rhymes: -ɛro
- Hyphenation: a‧dul‧tè‧ro
Noun
adultero m (plural adulteri)
- Alternative form of adulterio
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
adultero
- first-person singular present indicative of adulterare
Further reading
- adultero in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- adultero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- adultero in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- adultero in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- adultero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- adùltero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From ad (“to”) + alterum/alteram (“the other”) + -ō, so "to go to the other", i.e. "to have a relationship on the side". The vowel change is the same as is between alō, (ad)olēscō/ulēscō and (ad)ultus.
Pronunciation
Verb
adulterō (present infinitive adulterāre, perfect active adulterāvī, supine adulterātum); first conjugation
- to commit adultery (with)
- (figuratively) to falsify, counterfeit, adulterate; to pollute, corrupt, defile
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “adultero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adultero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adultero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
adultero
- first-person singular present indicative of adulterar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adulˈteɾo/
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: a‧dul‧te‧ro
Verb
adultero
- first-person singular present indicative of adulterar
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish adúltero, from Latin adulter.
Pronunciation
Noun
adúlteró (feminine adultera, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜎ᜔ᜆᜒᜇᜓ)
- adulterer (especially male)
- Synonyms: mangangalunya, mang-aapid, (male) mambababae
Further reading
- Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 13