adulto

From adulti +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdulto/

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• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: a‧dul‧to

adulto (accusative singular adulton, plural adultoj, accusative plural adultojn)

1. adultery (cheating on a spouse)

Borrowed from Latin adultus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdulto/ [aˈð̞ul̪.t̪ʊ]

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• Rhymes: -ulto
• Hyphenation: a‧dul‧to

adulto (feminine adulta, masculine plural adultos, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult

adulto m (plural adultos, feminine adulta, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult

   Espectáculo para adultos

   Entertainment for adults

• “adulto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “adulto”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Borrowed from Esperanto adolto, English adult, French adulte, Italian adulto, Spanish adulto, all from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈdul.to/

adulto (plural adulti)

1. adult
   • 1913, La Progreso, volume 5, page 712:

     Granda esas la difero inter infanto ed adulto.

     Great is the difference between a child and an adult.

Borrowed from Latin adultus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdul.to/
• Rhymes: -ulto
• Hyphenation: a‧dùl‧to

adulto (feminine adulta, masculine plural adulti, feminine plural adulte)

1. adult, grown-up

adulto m (plural adulti, feminine adulta)

1. adult

• adulto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• doluta

adultō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adultus

From Latin adultus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdultu/ [ɐˈð̞uɫ̪.t̪u] (Central)
• IPA^(key): /aˈdultu/ [ɐˈð̞ɨwɫ̪.t̪u] (Sendinese)
• Rhymes: -ultu
• Syllabification: a‧dul‧to

adulto (feminine adulta, masculine plural adultos, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult

adulto m (plural adultos, feminine adulta, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult
   • 2016 June, Alfredo Cameirão, “Fazer L nono anho an Mirandés. L porcesso de reconhecimiento, balidaçon i certeficaçon de cumpeténcias an Lhéngua Mirandesa. L causo de San Pedro de la Silba”, in Colóquio internacional sobre ecolinguismo e línguas minoritárias: livro de resumos‎^[1], University of Aveiro, page 16:

     Habendo sido ls respunsables por dous campos de formaçon de ls dous adultos […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Latin adultus.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ultu, (Brazil) -uwtu

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• Hyphenation: a‧dul‧to

adulto (feminine adulta, masculine plural adultos, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult, grown-up

adulto m (plural adultos, feminine adulta, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult

• “adulto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “adulto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin adultus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdulto/ [aˈð̞ul̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: a‧dul‧to

adulto (feminine adulta, masculine plural adultos, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult

adulto m (plural adultos, feminine adulta, feminine plural adultas)

1. adult

• “adulto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish adulto (“adult”), from Latin adultus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdulto/ [ʔɐˈd̪ul.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: a‧dul‧to

adulto (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜎ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. adult

   Synonym: maygulang

   • 1988, “Pagmamasid sa Daigdig”, in Gumising!‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 September 2020:

     Noong nakaraang Setyembre ang kauna-unahang pagkakataon na inilipat ng mga doktor ang himaymay ng ipinagbubuntis na sanggol sa mga utak ng dalawang adulto na mayroong Parkinson’s disease.

     Last September was the first time doctors transplanted fetal tissue into the brains of two adults suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

adulto (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜎ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. adult

   Synonym: maygulang

• 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