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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish paulatino.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pau‧la‧ti‧no
Adjective
paulatino (feminine paulatina, masculine plural paulatinos, feminine plural paulatinas)
- gradual
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin paulātim (“gradually”), probably at first pronounced */paulaˈtin/ and from there turned into an adjective per the suffix -ino. Attested from at least 1817.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paulaˈtino/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: pau‧la‧ti‧no
Adjective
paulatino (feminine paulatina, masculine plural paulatinos, feminine plural paulatinas)
- gradual
2021 February 13, Guillermo Altares, “Neandertales, los humanos solitarios”, in El País:El paulatino acercamiento entre los Homo sapiens, los humanos actuales, y los neandertales, desde el punto de vista intelectual, pero también genético, ha sido uno de los procesos científicos más desafiantes de las últimas décadas.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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