allegado
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʝeˈɡado/ [a.ʝeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /aʎeˈɡado/ [a.ʎeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /aʃeˈɡado/ [a.ʃeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /aʒeˈɡado/ [a.ʒeˈɣ̞a.ð̞o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧lle‧ga‧do
Adjective
allegado (feminine allegada, masculine plural allegados, feminine plural allegadas)
Noun
allegado m (plural allegados)
- (in the plural) member of one's inner circle; nearest and dearest
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 247:
- No se deben coger flores en los cementerios, porque son amenazas de muerte, no sólo para el que las toma, sino también para sus deudos y allegados.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- follower
- Synonym: seguidor
See also
Participle
allegado (feminine allegada, masculine plural allegados, feminine plural allegadas)
- past participle of allegar
Further reading
- “allegado”, 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