comprador

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From Portuguese comprador (“buyer”), from Late Latin comparator, from Latin comparō (“I buy”), from con- (“with”) + paro (“I furnish”).

In Far East, originally applied to native servants in European households, later to native managers in European businesses.^[1]

• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /kɒm.pɹəˈdɔɹ/
• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /kɒm.pɹəˈdɔː/
• Hyphenation: com‧pra‧dor

comprador (plural compradors)

1. An intermediary.
2. A native of a colonised country who acts as the agent of the coloniser.
3. (nautical) A ship's chandler in the Far East.

From comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compāratōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

comprador m (plural compradors, feminine compradora)

1. buyer

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

From comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compāratōrem, from Latin compārō.

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comprador m (plural compradores, feminine compradora, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buyer

• “comprador”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “comprador” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compārātōrem, from Latin compārō.

• Rhymes: -oʁ, -oɾ
• Hyphenation: com‧pra‧dor

comprador m (plural compradores, feminine compradora, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buyer (person who makes purchases)
2. customer

   Synonyms: cliente, freguês

• comprar, compra, comprável

• Macanese: compradô
• → English: comprador

From comprar +‎ -dor, or from Late Latin compāratōrem, from Latin compārō.

• IPA^(key): /kompɾaˈdoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: com‧pra‧dor

comprador (feminine compradora, masculine plural compradores, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buying

comprador m (plural compradores, feminine compradora, feminine plural compradoras)

1. buyer

• “comprador”, 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