clandestino

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Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klandesˈtino/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: clan‧des‧ti‧no

Adjective

clandestino (feminine clandestina, masculine plural clandestinos, feminine plural clandestinas)

  1. clandestine

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin clandestīnus (“secret, concealed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klan.deˈsti.no/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: clan‧de‧stì‧no

Adjective

clandestino (feminine clandestina, masculine plural clandestini, feminine plural clandestine)

  1. illicit
  2. clandestine, secret, surreptitious
  3. underground, undercover

Noun

clandestino m (plural clandestini, feminine clandestina)

  1. illegal immigrant
  2. stowaway

Derived terms

Latin

Adjective

clandestīnō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of clandestīnus

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin clandestīnus (“secret, concealed”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: clan‧des‧ti‧no

Adjective

clandestino (feminine clandestina, masculine plural clandestinos, feminine plural clandestinas)

  1. clandestine (done or kept in secret)
    Synonym: secreto
  2. illicit
    Synonym: ilícito

Derived terms

Noun

clandestino m (plural clandestinos, feminine clandestina, feminine plural clandestinas)

  1. stowaway
  2. illegal immigrant

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clandestīnus (“secret, concealed”). Cognate with English clandestine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klandesˈtino/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Syllabification: clan‧des‧ti‧no

Adjective

clandestino (feminine clandestina, masculine plural clandestinos, feminine plural clandestinas)

  1. clandestine

Derived terms

Noun

clandestino m (plural clandestinos, feminine clandestina, feminine plural clandestinas)

  1. one who is clandestine; (often) undocumented immigrant
    • 1998, “Clandestino”, in Clandestino, performed by Manu Chao:
      Perdido en el corazón de la grande Babylon / Me dicen "el clandestino" por no llevar papel
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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