preboste
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan prebost, from Latin praepositus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈbɔs.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pɾeˈbɔʃ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈbɔs.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾɨˈbɔʃ.tɨ/ [pɾɨˈβɔʃ.tɨ]
- Hyphenation: pre‧bos‧te
Noun
preboste m (plural prebostes)
- (military) provost (military prison keeper)
- (religion) provost (highest position in a monastery below an abbot)
Further reading
- “preboste”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “preboste”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan prebost, from Latin praepositus.
Noun
preboste m (plural prebostes)
Further reading
- “preboste”, 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